The optimal route from your central point through every stop.
Turn a list of addresses into the fastest way to visit them all.
QuickMap plans the most efficient driving route to visit a list of stops, starting from a central point you choose. Pull addresses straight off a webpage, drop pins on the map, or type them in by hand — QuickMap calculates real driving distances between every stop and finds the shortest path to cover them all.
A few ways people use it:
- Real estate showings — touring several listings or open houses in one trip, in the smartest order, starting from wherever you are.
- Restaurant hopping ✨ — turn a "Top 10 Italian restaurants in Toronto" article into an actual route, and crawl through them without doubling back.
- Errand-running — bank, pharmacy, post office, dry cleaner, grocery store — knock them all out in the most efficient order from home.
- Delivery routes — plan the shortest run across multiple drop-offs, whether it's a side gig or a small business handling its own deliveries.
No installation and no account required — open the live demo and plan a route in under a minute.
- Scan a webpage for addresses — paste a URL and QuickMap extracts address-shaped text for you to confirm.
- Flexible stop entry — scan a page, click the map, or type an address directly.
- Real route optimization — uses live driving distances, not straight-line estimates, to compute the shortest path through every stop.
- Clear visual results — the route is drawn on the map alongside an ordered, labeled list of stops.
- Try it instantly — a built-in demo mode lets you plan a few routes with zero setup.
- Open the live demo — no signup needed.
- Set a central point — your starting location.
- Add stops by pasting a URL, clicking the map, or typing addresses directly.
- Click Find best route to get your optimized route.
If the shared demo reaches its daily limit, QuickMap will prompt you to bring your own free Google Maps API key so you can keep going.
QuickMap runs entirely in your browser — there's no backend server
relaying map requests — so it talks to Google directly using a key. A
free key takes about five minutes to set up and is stored only in your
browser (localStorage), never sent anywhere else.
- Go to the Google Cloud Console, create a project (or pick an existing one).
- APIs & Services → Library: enable Maps JavaScript API, Geocoding API, and Routes API.
- APIs & Services → Credentials → Create Credentials → API key.
- (Recommended) Restrict the key — Application restrictions → HTTP referrers → add the QuickMap site's URL; API restrictions → limit it to the three APIs above.
- Google requires a billing account attached even for free-tier usage; normal personal use (a handful of routes) should stay comfortably within the monthly free usage included with every account.
- Paste the key into QuickMap when prompted, or via the "Use your own API key" button.
Want to run QuickMap locally, understand how it works under the hood, or deploy your own copy? See DevNotes.md.
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