Save, publish, share and update your map

Save map

Before publishing or sharing your map, the first step is to save your map. Click on the Save button in the top-right corner to create a draft version of your map.

Publishing your map

Publishing a map is the first step you need to make to share your map with people.

  1. At the top of the screen, click Publish.

  2. In the pop-up window, confirm by clicking the PUBLISH button.

    3. Sharing and embedding your map

    You’ve just published your map. It’s still not visible anywhere on the web. To make it accessible, you will need to share or embed your map.

    Sharing a map

    1. At the top of the screen, click Publish. ​

      Since your map has already been published, the pop-up window will be slightly different from the window in the previous step.

    2. To send the direct link to your map, click COPY LINK (or select the link in the link field and copy it) and paste it into an email or a message.

    3. To share the map on social media, click the icon of the social network you want to share your map to.

      4. Embedding a map

      1. At the top of the screen, click Publish.

      2. Click the iFrame tab.

      3. Click COPY EMBED CODE.

      4. Paste the link to your blog or website.

      Updating your map

      Maps app allows you to revisit every map you've created, even the ones you already published and embedded, and update them, without affecting the embedded version of the map. All the changes will be visible only to you, and when you decide to allow your audiences to view the latest version of the map, you'll need to republish it.

      Here's what you need to do to make sure your audiences are seeing the latest version of the map.

      A green dot next to the name of the map in your project indicates that there are changes not visible to your audience when you update any map you already published. That way, you can keep track of all the maps with changes not visible to your audience.

      1. At the top of the screen, click Publish.

        Before publishing you need to save a map.

      2. To confirm you want to update the live version of your map, click the REPUBLISH button.

      Once you republish the map, all the changes will be visible to all your audiences, and you don't need to send or embed a new link.