/MAPS — EVENT · LANDMARK · HELP
Not on any map?
Make yours.
Regular maps record the permanent world. FindTribe maps what they miss: a festival that is a city for three days, a wedding only the guests can see, a campus, a town the morning after an earthquake. Anyone can make one.
- Event map (Temporary): Something happening on set dates. Stages, entrances, food. Example pins: Main stage, Second stage, Entrance, Food, Medical aid, Meeting point, Restrooms.
- Landmark map (Permanent): Places that stay put. A neighborhood, a campus, a trail. Example pins: Library, Student center, Parking, Trailhead, Clinic, Meeting point, Bus stop.
- Help map (Emergency): For after an earthquake or emergency. Anyone can add what they see. Example pins: Shelter, Medical post, Water, Road blocked, Collapsed building, Meeting point, Danger zone, Phone charging, I offer… a generator.
What are you making?
Three kinds of map.
Chosen once.
The app asks one question before anything else. The answer sets what the map can do. You choose this once. A map keeps its kind for life.
Event Temporary
- Private behind your password, or public. Switch any time.
- Guests scan a QR code and open your map.
- Start and end dates. Lineup and stages.
- A scavenger game for your guests.
Festivals · weddings · conferences · races
Landmark Permanent
- No dates. Always visible.
- 46 landmark markers, from Hospital to Trailhead.
- Trails, boundaries and color zones.
- The same map, for as long as the place is there.
Campuses · neighborhoods · trails · parks
Help Emergency
- No password, no invite list, no sponsors.
- Starts as a draft. Public once published.
- 14 kinds of report in four families.
- One town, one map, kept by everyone there.
Private events · weddings · reunions · offsites
A map only
your guests can see.
Make an Event map private and it opens only with the password you chose. Switch it public or private any time, and change the password whenever you like.
Who can see this map?
Anyone can find a public map. Private Events require the password you choose.
Nobody joins without the password.
Contribution requests only exist on public maps, so a private map stays yours and your editors’ alone. Guests see their friends on the map, the meet points and the lineup.
Show a QR code. They’re in.
The app makes a code for your map. Guests scan it and land straight in the app with your map open. No search, no typing the name.
Stored on every guest’s phone.
An activated map lives on the phone that scanned it, so it keeps working when the venue’s signal drops.
Design Studio · AI Map Builder · Map From Image
Draw it. Say it.
Or photograph it.
Three ways to fill a map. Place markers and zones by hand in the Design Studio. Tell AI Map Builder where things go, by voice or by text. Or upload the venue map you already have and let AI Vision lay it onto the real world.
Stages to lighthouses, one tap each.
28 event markers, from Stage, Entrance and Food to Medical Aid, Meeting Point and Accessible. 46 landmark markers, from Hospital, Pharmacy and School to Train, Campground and Lighthouse.
Perimeters, routes and color zones.
Three perimeters for the boundary, the restricted area and VIP. Four route types, from attendee paths to accessibility routes. Text labels and billboards. Color zones for parking, vendors, sponsors and emergency areas.
Tell it where things go.
“Drop a marker where I am.” “Place a stage 50 ft north of me.” “Draw a perimeter around Golden Gate Park.” Speak or type. Undo, move or delete anything it placed. Needs internet.
Carries what it needs.
A title, a photo, a description, a link. Stage images and a lineup by tier, day and time. A vendor menu. A geofence with its own entry and exit messages.
Light, dark, terrain or satellite.
Pick the ground the map sits on. A festival at night reads best dark. A trail reads best on terrain.
Start from the map you already have.
“Turn an existing festival map, venue layout, or blueprint into an interactive FindTribe map. AI reads the image for markers, legends, and boundaries, then lays them out on a real-world map for you to fine-tune.” Needs internet.
The image is read for markers, legends and boundaries.
Mark the corners of the picture.
Mark the same corners on the real map.
The fit is calculated, with accuracy shown in meters.
Check it, then commit. Fine-tune anything by hand.
Admin · editors · requesters
One admin.
Many hands.
A map has one Admin, the person who created it, with full control. Editors add and fine-tune pins alongside the Admin. On a public map that allows it, anyone in FindTribe can ask to help build it.
Created the map. Decides who edits it, approves or declines requests, publishes it.
Can add and fine-tune map pins and details alongside the admin.
Editors share a discussion thread with the Admin.
Taps Request to Contribute on a public map, writes a pitch, and waits for a yes.
Know a place someone else mapped? A campus you walk every day, a trail you have hiked for years, a festival you have worked five times. Ask to help. Say why you care and what you can add. The Admin decides, and you build it together.
Request to Contribute
Share why you care about this experience and how you can help it grow.
I’ve marshalled the finish line here for four years. I can add the aid stations, the water stops and the spectator spots that never make the official map
Help maps · the emergency kind
The morning after,
mapped by everyone.
FindTribe is not an emergency service and does not send help. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.A Help map is something else: a shared picture of a town after an earthquake or emergency, kept by the people who are there.
“Anyone can see this map and add reports. That’s the point.” A Help map has no password, no invite list and no sponsors. It is public the moment it is published. One town, one Help map: start a second for the same place and the app points you to the one that already exists.
2 more confirmed from a distance. Reported by Marta R. · 2 h ago.
Only the person who reported this pin can close it.
- Trapped person
- Danger zone
- Collapsed building
- Damaged home
- Road blocked
- Shelter
- Medical post
- Water
- Food
- Phone charging
- Donation point
- I need…
- I offer…
- Meeting point
The owner can place the seven facilities a town already knows about, shelter to meeting point, from anywhere. The app calls it Add a place you know
and says why: You place these on the map. They don’t need you to be standing there.
Everything else is Add what you see
, and can only come from the phone of the person standing there.
Every pin asks the next reader the same question. Two answers: Still true
and Not anymore
. Confirmations made on site are counted apart from confirmations made from far away, so you can tell who actually looked. A pin is always in one of five states: Confirmed, Not confirmed yet, Needs a check, Disputed or Closed.
When two people disagree, the app does not settle it. Both reports are kept. We don’t average them and we don’t pick a winner. Go and look if you can.
Until someone does: Treat it as a maybe until someone checks.
Only the person who reported a pin can close it, and a closed pin stays on the map, marked closed.
Saved on this phone. It will send when you open the app with signal.
One limit, stated plainly:Nothing sends while the app is closed.
Reports travel over the internet, not over FindTribe Mesh. Mesh carries messages, locations and SOS between your own people. It does not carry map pins.
Forward a Help map link and it opens on findtribe.ai as a read-only map. No account, no app. A relative in another country can follow the town. A volunteer with a laptop can plan around the blocked roads. Admins can export the whole map as CSV or GeoJSON.
The owner can draw the affected zone at publish time, so the right map data is saved on phones for offline use. Open the map once with signal and it keeps working without it.
Help maps came out of the founder’s wait for news from Colombia. READ THE STORY →
Common questions
Asked before
the first pin.
Can I create my own map in FindTribe?
What is the difference between Event, Landmark and Help maps?
Can I change a map's kind later?
Do I need to be an event organizer to make a map?
Can I make a private map for a private event?
Can other people help build my map?
Does a Help map send help or contact rescuers?
Do Help map reports travel over FindTribe Mesh?
Can someone without the app see a Help map?
BUILD YOUR WORLD
Make the map
you wished existed.
Public or private. Yours to make.
FindTribe is not an emergency service and does not send help. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.