Map Builder

Map Builder is a map design tool: it creates and edits custom styled maps of any place from a plain-language description. Tell it the place and what you want on it, and a live, zoomable map appears in the chat in seconds.

What you can do: pick a ready-made style or describe your own ("Halloween colors", "dark with gold roads"); add pins with icons, colors, labels and popups with notes, links and photos; add text, routes between places, shaded areas and circles ("a 1-mile radius around the venue"); then ask for changes in plain words ("make the water darker", "remove the third pin").

Publishing: say "put it online" and the map becomes a live page with a link anyone can open and code to embed it in a website, with no account needed. To keep the map, the user can choose to save it to their Map Builder account; the assistant then gives a private link, and opening it and signing in makes the map theirs, with the same page address.

Who it's for: anyone who wants a map that looks the way they want and shows the places that matter, such as trip and wedding planners, event organizers, small businesses showing their locations, teachers, writers and travelers.

Limits: downloads and file uploads aren't done in ChatGPT; Open in Map builder takes the map to mapbuilder.app to fine-tune every detail. Satellite and terrain maps and routes that follow roads aren't available in ChatGPT.