The map

The map shows where your bills were, and the photos on them that carry a place of their own. It holds every bill you started or have a seat on, except one you archived. A bill has a place when the phone that started it shared where it was: TabApp asks your browser when you start a bill or add a photo, and if you say no, the bill is kept with no place and is not on the map.

How to add, change or clear where a bill was

The organiser sets a bill's place from Where in its Bill settings, at the table or later on.

1. Press Where. With no place yet it reads Add where you are now.
2. Type the place's name in Search for a place, and press it in the list. Or press Use where I am now to keep where your phone is.
3. The bill takes that place, on its Where row and on the map. Undo puts back the place it had before.

To take the place away, press the cross, Clear place, beside Where. Undo puts it back.

How to open a place in Google Maps, get directions or leave a review

Anyone on a bill can open its place sheet: press Place details beneath Where in its Bill settings, or Where itself when it leads nowhere else. The sheet shows the place's name, its address, and what kind of place it is, from what the bill keeps. It offers:

• Open in Google Maps, to see the place there, with its reviews, opening hours and photos.
• Directions, to get there from where you are.
• Leave a review, to write about the place on Google.

Each opens in a new tab, or in the Google Maps app where it is installed. A place typed by name, or a spot with no name, has no Leave a review, and Google Maps searches for it instead. The same links sit under the place's name in the sheet a pin opens on the map.

How to use the map

1. Open the map from Map in Photos and places on Home, or from Map, "Where your bills were", on Browse in Settings. Where in a bill's Bill settings opens it on that bill alone. From a group's Home it opens with only the group's bills and their photos, under In and the group's name: its bills on their own and those in its tabs you are in. Press the group's name to see every place again. From a tab or a bill, under Photos and places at its foot, it opens with only the tab's or the bill's, under In and its name; a bill's opens close in on where it was. Someone on a tab with no account, from a link of their own, opens the tab's map in the same way, with the tab's bills they are on; their In has no way to everything, which needs an account.
2. A round pin is a bill; a small picture is a photo. Pins close together become a number: press it to zoom in.
3. Press a pin. A sheet rises with the place's name and, for a place found by search, its address, then Open in Google Maps, Directions and, for a place found by search, Leave a review, then its bills, newest first, each with its day and total, and their photos. Press a bill, or Open and its name, to go to it.
4. Search for a place moves the map there, and Show all places brings every pin back into view.

The line under the bar says how many bills and photos are in view, out of all of them.

Worked example: Maya's summer

Maya organised Luigi's Trattoria in London, and is on the four bills of the Lisbon weekend tab. Tom added a photo of the Heathrow coffee to its bill.

Her map opens with "5 bills and 1 photo, all in view": a pin in London for Luigi's, one at Heathrow for the coffee with Tom's photo beside it, and three in Lisbon. She zooms in on Lisbon, and the line reads "3 bills and 0 photos in view, of 5 and 1". She presses the pin for Dinner at Ramiro: the sheet lists it as "Sat 12 Jul, Lisbon weekend (tab)", with its total, 96.00.

If something stops you

• "No bills or photos with a place yet". None of your bills was started with a place. A bill started where your browser was not allowed to share its place has none.
• There is no Add where you are now, or Where cannot be pressed. Only the organiser adds, changes or clears a bill's place, and only with a connection. If your browser was not allowed to share where you are, allow it and press Use where I am now again.
• "Could not search places. Try again." The search did not answer. The bill keeps the place it had; try again in a moment.
• "The map needs a connection." It comes back by itself when you are online.
• A bill is missing from the map. A bill you archived is left off it, as it is left off Home and the gallery; it stays on the map of everyone else on it. Find it under Archived in Bills, and Unarchive this bill in its settings brings it back.