This article is about the Proxi admin app at app.proxi.co.
Every map reads its places from a collection, so you can add places from the map editor's Places panel or from the collection's page — same dialog, same choices. There's one Add Places button, and it covers adding one place at a time or many at once.
Adding One Place
Click Add Places or Add Listings (in the map editor it's the amber button at the top of the Places panel; on a collection page it's at the top right).
The Add a Place dialog has one search box. Start typing a name:
Your listings come up first — the businesses you already have in your workspace.
Search the web shows real places matching what you typed. If none of your listings match, we search the web on our own; otherwise there's a row that says Not one of these? Search the web.
On any result, click Quick Add to drop it straight in, or Add and Edit Details to open the place and fill things in first. Every place you add this way is also saved as a listing in your workspace, linked to the pin, so its details are reused on your other maps and in your directory.
Places already on this map say so and won't be added twice.
To add several in one go, click Select Several, tick the ones you want, and click Add.
Can't find it? The last row is Not Here? Add It Yourself — a blank form where you type the name and pick the address from the suggestions.
Double-Click the Map
In the map editor, double-click anywhere on the map to drop a place exactly there — the form opens with that spot already filled in. Handy for things without a street address, like the start of a trail or a festival stage.
Adding Many at Once
At the bottom of the Add a Place dialog (and filling the page while a list is still empty) there's a set of shortcuts — "Have a lot to add? You don't have to type them one by one." Pick the one that matches where your places live today:
Find Places Nearby — real businesses by kind (coffee shops, murals, parks) around your map. See Find Places Nearby: Add Real Businesses by Kind.
Extract From Text, Extract From a Website, Extract From a PDF or Photo — paste a list, give us a web address, or drop a file, and we read the places out of it for you to check. See Read a List: Turn a Pasted List, PDF, Photo, or Website Into Listings.
Import a Spreadsheet — a CSV or Excel file, one place per row (details below).
Import a KML or My Maps File — bringing a map over from another tool.
Add From Your Listings — check off businesses you already have. Each stays in sync with its listing, so edit the listing once and the map updates too.
Import From Your Collections — copy places from another list you've built.
Share a Form People Can Add To — let your community suggest places. See Collecting Places From Your Community.
Importing a Spreadsheet
Pick Import a Spreadsheet (there's a Download template if you're starting from scratch). The import walks you through:
Map your columns — tell us which column is the name, address, and so on. A column that doesn't match anything yet can become a new field (Make a new field) or be left out (Don't import).
We'll create these fields — for each new column we suggest a type and options from what's in it. Say whether it's about the business itself or just this list, and untick any you don't want.
Find locations — we place each row on the map and show you what matched, what needs review, and what failed, with a search box to fix any stragglers.
Import — done! If any rows couldn't be imported, you can download the errors to fix and retry.
A Few More Things
A note on plan limits: if your plan caps how many places a map can hold, the add dialog will tell you how much room is left.