How to map many locations at once
The Add many circles at once box is open on this page with three example lines. Replace them with your own list, one location per line, and press Add these circles. Each line becomes a circle with its own colour and label, and the map zooms out to show them all.
A line has up to three parts, separated by a semicolon or a tab:
- Where: a town or city (
Springfield, IL,Leeds,Lyon, France) or coordinates (41.8781, -87.6298). - Radius: a number, with a unit if it differs from the one above the map (
10,15 km,500 ft). - Label: optional, shown on the map, in the list, in the files and in a shared link (up to 40 characters).
Coverage, overlaps and gaps
With the circles on the map you can see at a glance where service areas overlap and which towns fall between them. Open Towns and cities inside a circle to list the places each circle covers, and use measure a distance to check the gap between two sites. Edit any circle afterwards: drag its centre, drag the handle on its edge, or type a new radius in the list.
Taking the map elsewhere
KML imports into Google My Maps and opens in Google Earth, with one placemark per location holding the circle and its centre. GeoJSON goes into QGIS, ArcGIS or a web map. Share result gives a link that opens all the circles for a colleague (all 50 circles fit in a link; with many long labels the link leaves the labels out), and Print makes a sheet with the map and a table of every circle, its radius, centre and area.