Research Workspace
Location Notes
Check 1935 road alignment and cemetery entrance before trip.
Visited: NoA private planning atlas for saving leads, comparing old maps and modern layers, and turning a “where was that?” into a route you can actually follow.
After years of juggling maps, notes, records, and planning tools, we built one field atlas to keep the whole trail together. Map The Place helps turn a clue into a location you can save, measure, compare, and visit.Matt and Jerri, Map The Place
Drop locations into private folders with notes, status, sources, and exact Street View angles.
Move between satellite, road, topo, parcel, PLSS, and historical map layers.
Search markers, graves, courthouses, public GIS, old newspapers, and map archives.
Measure distance, route visible stops, print field packets, and scout before you go.
Field Atlas keeps the research messy in the right way: folders for every thread, layers for every theory, public-source links for the next clue, and practical tools for getting from the screen to the actual place.
Mock app views show how saved locations, layered maps, notes, Street View, and measuring tools work together inside one planning space.
Sullivan House
County road bridge
Courthouse leads1886 deed office
Check 1935 road alignment and cemetery entrance before trip.
Visited: NoModern satellite
Historic topo
Parcels
Historical markers
1Morning courthouse stop
2Marker and old road trace
3Review private property boundaries
When notes say something like “250 feet southwest of the marker,” Field Atlas can project that distance and direction from your starting point, then help you work the surrounding ground with a grid.
Map The Place is built for the part where clues, public records, old roads, photos, and field notes all need to live on the same map.
Check walking distance, mark a range, compare access points, and turn “about a quarter mile from here” into a plan.
Move between satellite, road, topo, parcels, PLSS, public marker sources, and historical map leads without losing your saved work.
Keep private folders, notes, visited status, source links, photos, and exact Street View angles for each lead.
Use saved groups, printable packets, public-source search shortcuts, and exports when a trip moves from curious to serious.
Folders and subfolders let you separate cemeteries, courthouse leads, old home sites, landmarks, routes, and “maybe later” stops.
A location can become a quick launch point for Google, Find a Grave, newspapers, state historical markers, county GIS, and other free public sources.
Save Street View camera positions and map context so the next visit starts exactly where the last research session ended.
Member Trip Map
Pin locations from address cards, save stories for later, and build a custom route around the places you want to visit.