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Map drawing tool where the map lives in the URL

Details

External ID
48293538
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Map drawing tool where the map lives in the URL
Website domain
drawonamap.com
Launched
May 27, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
8
Upvotes percentile
0.4894991922455573
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

For the past 2 years, my girlfriend and I have been software engineers at CERN working for the ALICE and CMS experiments. A few months ago we decided to leave and focus full time on building our own products as we realised we'll never make the jump otherwise. Draw on a Map is the first one we've shipped and it already has nearly 300 users.Draw on a Map doesn't need an account for you to draw and share, and the map stays in the URL fragment (not sent to the server) when not logged in. You can open, draw, share in a matter of 30 seconds.The app is built on top of Cloudflare and using the data from OpenStreetMap. We wanted something lean that doesn't require a big time investment to learn how to use.Would highly appreciate any feedback!

Enrichment

Theme
interactive maps and geospatial visualizations
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
map drawing tool with url-based persistence
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a frontend mapping application combining a map library like MapLibre or Leaflet with compressed GeoJSON/drawing state serialized into the URL hash.

Discussion

1 comment analyzed.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 48 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #24 of 49 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 184 days after the earliest competitor.

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