Find Your Way: Maps, Autocomplete, and Directions Are Here

One of the most common questions we heard from early users was: "How do I actually get there?" Until now, Away Team was great at telling you what to do — but it left the "how to get there" part entirely up to you. That changes today.

We've shipped three new features that bring location awareness to the heart of your trip timeline. Whether you're planning a Roman holiday or a road trip through the Southwest, Away Team now helps you find your way.

Google Places Autocomplete for Activity Locations

Adding a location to any activity used to mean typing a freeform address and hoping for the best. Now when you type in the location field, Google Places autocomplete kicks in and surfaces real, geocoded places as you go. Pick a restaurant, museum, hotel, or trailhead from the suggestions and Away Team stores the exact coordinates alongside the name.

This matters not just for display — it's the foundation that makes the map and directions features possible. A geocoded location is a pin on a map, a starting point for navigation, and a link you can tap to open in Maps. Structured data unlocks everything.

Interactive Day Map in the Sidebar

Open any day on your timeline and you'll find a new map in the sidebar showing every activity for that day as a numbered, color-coded pin. Pin 1 is your first activity, pin 2 is your second, and so on — so at a glance you can see the geographic shape of your day and spot whether your routing makes sense.

The map is interactive: you can pan and zoom to get a better sense of distances between stops. Planning a day in Florence? If your morning museum is in the Oltrarno and your afternoon cooking class is in Santa Croce, you'll see exactly how far apart they are before you commit to the schedule. Sometimes a quick look at the map reveals that swapping two activities saves a lot of walking.

One-Tap Directions on Mobile

On mobile, every activity with a saved location now shows a Directions button. Tap it and Away Team opens Apple Maps on iOS or Google Maps on Android, with the destination already filled in and navigation ready to start. No copying addresses, no switching apps to search, no getting lost.

This is the feature we're most excited about for day-of use. When you're standing on a street corner in an unfamiliar city and you need to get to your next activity, you want one tap — not four.

Location Links in Activity Details

Even on the web, activity details now show a tappable location link that opens the address in Google Maps. Helpful when you're planning from your laptop and want to quickly sanity-check whether a restaurant is actually near your hotel.

These features are live now for all Away Team users. Open any trip, add a location to an activity, and the map will appear automatically. We hope it makes both the planning phase and the "we're actually here" phase a lot smoother.

More to come — we're already working on estimated travel times between activities. Stay tuned.