How to save places from ChatGPT to a map
By the Pocket Places team · Updated · 3 min read
You asked ChatGPT for taco places in Mexico City. The list it gave you is worth a flight.
Now you want those places on a map you’ll open on the trip.
You could type each name into a search bar and save it, one by one. That’s twelve searches. Two of the names don’t turn up anywhere, because ChatGPT made them up.
Or you take a screenshot and promise to sort it out later. Three weeks on, you’re on a corner in Roma Norte, scrolling past 400 photos to find it.
There’s a quicker way, and it takes one message.
The short answer
ChatGPT saves them to a map in Pocket Places, not to your Google Maps lists. Connect Pocket Places to ChatGPT, ask for places and say “save them.” Every spot saves with its address and hours, and a whole itinerary saves as a trip, day by day. Share the map with a link, and tap Directions on any spot to open it in Google Maps.
What is Pocket Places?
Save spots from posts to a map
Pocket Places is a free app for iPhone and Android. It keeps every spot you want to visit on a map of its own.
Share an Instagram or TikTok post, and it finds the spots in it. Connect ChatGPT, and ask ChatGPT to save its picks there too.
Spots sit under their country and city, and open with no signal.
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How to save places from ChatGPT, step by step
- 1Download Pocket Places for iPhone or Android and sign up. Connecting ChatGPT is free.
- 2On chatgpt.com, open Plugins, tap + and add Pocket Places with the link pocketplaces.app/mcp.
- 3In any chat, type @Pocket Places and ask: “Make me a map of 5 taco places in Mexico City.”
- 4Planning a trip? Say “save it as a trip.” Every day and stop saves in order.
- 5Open Pocket Places. Share the map with a link, or tap Directions to go there in Google Maps.
You do the setup once. After that, any chat can save to your map.
What happens when you say “save them”
ChatGPT hands each place to Pocket Places. We match recommendations to real place listings before saving them, so each saves with its address and opening hours.
If we can’t find a place, we don’t save it. ChatGPT tells you which one, so you can ask for another.
The places go into a new list, which opens as a map. Each one also sits under its city, next to anything you saved from Instagram or TikTok.
@Pocket Places make me a map of 5 taco places in Mexico City.
Made a listMade Tacos in CDMX with 5 places: El Califa de León, Taquería Orinoco, Los Cocuyos and 2 more. Each one has its address and hours.
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Why a map beats a screenshot of your ChatGPT list
You can find it again
A chat scrolls away under next week’s questions. A map stays where the places are. Open Pocket Places in Mexico City, and your taco list is right there.
It opens with no signal
Your spots stay on your phone, so the map opens on a metro platform with no bars at all.
Directions in Google Maps
Every spot has a Directions button. Tap it, and the place opens in Google Maps, ready to go.
Tips for getting better places out of ChatGPT
Name the area
“Tacos in Roma Norte” gets you places you can walk between. “Tacos in Mexico City” gets you the whole city.
Ask for a number
Five places are easier to choose from than twenty. You can always ask for five more.
Say what you like
“Open late, standing room, good salsa” tells ChatGPT far more than “popular”.
Start from what you saved
Ask it to “plan Saturday from the places I saved.” ChatGPT builds around your own spots first.
Ask ChatGPT. Save a map.
Connect Pocket Places once. Then say “save them” to the next list ChatGPT gives you, and it’s on your map.
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What is Pocket Places?
A free app for iPhone and Android. It keeps every spot you want to visit on one map. It saves spots from Instagram and TikTok posts, and the places you ask your AI to save.
Does Pocket Places save to my Google Maps lists?
No. It saves places to your map in Pocket Places and leaves your Google Maps lists as they are. Every saved spot has a Directions button that opens it in Google Maps.
Can I share the map with friends?
Yes. Share any list or trip with a link from the app. Friends with Pocket Places can save the list, or plan the trip with you.
What if the AI names a place that doesn’t exist?
We match recommendations to real place listings before saving them. If we can’t find a place, we don’t save it, and your AI tells you which.
What does it cost?
Pocket Places is free to download. Connecting ChatGPT needs Pocket Places Plus and ChatGPT Plus or above.