BlinkMap

I spent hours updating my map and now with the latest update everything is gone. I can’t even access a map. It asks me to input a city that I don’t even live by. And then it says will email you once that’s available. Before this update, it was like Google maps I could go into any city. What in the?!?!?! UPDATE -changed from 1 star to 4 stars since developer got back to me…. Thanks! My only complaint is it’s always dark mode. I’d rather view a map with white vrs black background… that one thing would make it 5 stars.

Now that my parole has ended I am ready to explore the world and Blink Map makes that possible. My life is different now, richer, more variegated. I’m seeing sights I only imagined before. There is a computer at McDonald’s now. After eight years (three on house arrest) it can be daunting to “get back out there,” but it is much easier with Blink Map in tow.

I am a power user for Google map, and I hated the experience for using bookmarks in Google: I have hundreds of places that have the same icon, I can’t easily categorize them into restaurants, or hotels or shops, I can’t filter on places that I haven’t been, or only show bars. BlinkMap changes all that. After importing my Google bookmarks, I can finally give every category custom emojis, and choose to show only places in the selected categories; I can mark a place as visited, and I can choose to show only places places I visited or haven’t visited. Since I have thousands of places, the importing takes a while. But it’s worth it for the features that come with it once they’re all imported. Besides, I was customizing my list with emojis so the waiting didn’t feel long. I hope the app can add features that allow me to edit lists with my friends for our travel plans.