# Allow users to add a pin to a map

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-add-a-pin-to-a-map/4322
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-add-a-pin-to-a-map/4322 "2020-02-06T11:51:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Brett\_Nathan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/brett_nathan/32/3313_2.png) [@Brett\_Nathan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Brett_Nathan)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-add-a-pin-to-a-map/4322/1 "2020-02-06T11:51:23Z")

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I want users to be able put their own pins on a map.

I know I can have the user manually enter a Co-ordinate when they hit add. And I am using that co-ordinate to generate map pins. This is not a preferrable method as it requires the user to go to google maps and find their coordinate manually.

I am hoping there is a way to allow users to drop a pin on the map which then gets added as a new item in the spreadsheet with any additional relevant details (e.g. a note, name and date).

Is this possible, if so how?

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### Author: ![George\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/george_b/32/534_2.png) [@George\_B](https://community.glideapps.com/u/George_B)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-add-a-pin-to-a-map/4322/2 "2020-02-07T04:20:31Z")

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Not possible at this time. The map is a one way street, Glide sends data to it. Glide will not retrieve data (i.e. info about a click on the map) back from the map.

Edit: I just realized this was a feature request. I’ll leave my comment here anyway and acknowledge that it is not an answer to your request for this feature.

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### Author: ![Brett\_Nathan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/brett_nathan/32/3313_2.png) [@Brett\_Nathan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Brett_Nathan)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-add-a-pin-to-a-map/4322/3 "2020-02-07T09:02:47Z")

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No thank you for your reply. That’s pretty much what I was wondering. It’s funny because I can have a user manually input the co ordinate. But yeah I imagine this may or may not become a feature.

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### Author: ![AlfredoZGC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/alfredozgc/32/4958_2.png) [@AlfredoZGC](https://community.glideapps.com/u/AlfredoZGC)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-users-to-add-a-pin-to-a-map/4322/4 "2020-03-31T15:07:44Z")

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Hello, I know this is not precisely what you need but this link helped me a lot:

> **[Get latitude/longitude for any location through Google Sheets and plot these...](https://discourse.looker.com/t/get-latitude-longitude-for-any-location-through-google-sheets-and-plot-these-in-looker/5402)**
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> \_In this post we’ll explore an easy way to enhance your geodata using Apps script and Google Maps service, which makes it easier to plot values on a map in Looker, without having to create a topoJSON file. Getting latitude & longitude for any...

Basically you can get coordinates from specific adressess, you can add a function to do this on Google Sheets