Tasmap

2026-08-26

A Hot Month

Time flies. Another month has already passed. I’m not sure the air conditioner by the window can survive another one, but right now it is easily the most indispensable member of the team.

This month has been as busy as it has been hot. Here’s how Tasmap has changed.

Export Maps as Images

You can finally leave screenshots behind. Classic Layout can now export maps as PNG, JPEG, or WebP images at resolutions up to 4K, with more detail than before.

We’ll soon extend this to print-ready exports at 150–300 DPI, so you can use your map in reports, cards, trifold brochures, or posters. The interactive version will still work on your phone too.

Import Addresses and Place Names

When importing CSV, TSV, or XLSX files, you can now use columns containing addresses or place names instead of latitude and longitude. If you already have a list of locations, import it and give it a try.

Install a Map as an App

If your device supports it, you can now install a map as a standalone app from the new map menu. An installed map gets its own icon and opens full screen, giving it a more focused experience than a browser tab.

This mode will also serve as the foundation for offline maps in the future. See the demo on X.

A New Preview and Sharing Experience

We reorganized and redesigned the preview and sharing tools. They now share one consistent interface, with social previews for platforms such as Facebook and X, device previews for iPhone, iPad, and desktop, and image export controls.

The new preview also uses the map you’re currently editing instead of the last saved version, so you can check your latest changes without publishing them first.

A Better Map Menu

We redesigned the map menu button to make it clearer and easier to use. New map features and display controls will gradually move into this menu, giving you one predictable place to find them.

Smoother Maps and Articles

This one is easier to feel than describe. We refined many interaction details between maps and articles, so moving among places, routes, text links, and block links should now feel smoother and more comfortable.

Coordinating all of those interactions is complex, and there is more work ahead. This update gives us a strong first step.

More Improvements

  • Email account verification: New accounts and existing unverified email accounts must now complete email verification, helping us reduce disposable accounts.
  • Edit existing route styles: Like location markers, paths can now be batch edited by their existing styles.
  • Control location access: Viewers can choose whether to show their current location from the map menu. Tasmap requests location permission only after this is turned on. Your location stays in your browser and is never uploaded or collected.
  • Focus Area reminders: When the current view moves too far from the original area, the editor asks whether you want to use the current view as the new Focus Area.
  • Clearer AI progress: Progress is easier to follow while creating maps, generating sharing materials, and designing themes. Theme generation now considers more of the map’s colors, producing more consistent contrast for markers.
  • Consistent prompts: Tooltips, success messages, input reminders, and errors now follow one visual system. Prompts on public maps also use the map theme color.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed height, safe-area, and drag-range issues on some phones when a map is installed as an app.
  • Fixed position offsets, marker drift, and narrow-screen overflow when expanding or collapsing the map menu.
  • Fixed occasional endless loading, incorrect backgrounds, and unstable QR code sizing in live preview.
  • Fixed incorrect view-range calculations when image export dimensions contain decimals.
  • Fixed the position of the article text-selection tool and made its popover follow the selection after content changes.
  • Fixed some inline links failing to scroll to the correct article position when opened from map content.
  • Fixed popover conflicts when click content and hover content appear at the same time.
  • Fixed cases where deleting a place or route could remove the wrong elements when styles were shared.
  • Fixed address and place-name searches being biased toward the wrong area when the search range was too large.
  • Fixed display issues caused by invalid map style names and incorrect base-layer ordering.
  • Fixed several header and footer links, along with an issue where the hidden navigation bar could block page scrolling.

What’s Next

That’s all for this month’s visible product updates, though plenty also changed under the hood. We migrated to a new framework, improved page rendering and peak-load capacity, and added a large collection of regression tests.

We have no 3,500-feature roadmap. Every new feature will serve the same goal: helping you create a better map more easily.

Search and filtering, along with print-ready image exports, are already in testing. After those ship, we’ll keep refining the overall experience and turn our attention to data import. We want to make it easy to turn almost anything into a map, then shape it into exactly what you need.

If you’d like to follow our progress or share an idea, you can find us here:

See you next month. I hope it’s cooler by then.