Your camera roll is already a map of your city.
Years of photos, each taken somewhere worth standing. Photerra reads where they were taken — the exact coordinates — and turns them into a map only you can see. Publish the spots worth sharing, and you've put your city on a map made of real photos, not business listings.
From camera roll to city map, in three steps.
Scan your camera roll
Photerra reads the location already saved in your photos and builds your private travel map — every place you've ever photographed, pinned where you stood. Nothing leaves your phone in this step.
Publish the spots worth sharing
Pick the photos that show a place worth standing — the viewpoint, the mural, the bench with the skyline. Each one you post becomes a spot at its exact coordinate. You choose every photo; nothing is shared automatically.
Earn City Pioneer
First to map a place no one has pinned before? That spot earns the City Pioneer badge — permanent credit for opening your corner of the map.
The best spots in your city aren't on any map.
Every other travel app draws from the same pile of business listings and recycled reviews — so they all know the restaurant, and none of them know the bend in the stairs where the whole city opens up. That spot has no address. It only gets on a map when someone who's stood there puts it there. In every city on Photerra, from San Francisco to Kyoto, the map started with a handful of locals doing exactly that — see what they've built so far.
Your photos stay yours.
The scan builds a private map — nobody sees it but you. A photo becomes public only when you post it as a spot, and only that photo. No ads, no sponsored placements, and we don't sell your data. Photerra is free on iOS and Android.
Mapping your city, the quick version.
Do I have to share my photos to use Photerra?
No. The scan builds a private map only you can see. Nothing is published unless you choose a photo and post it as a spot — and only that photo, at that coordinate, becomes public.
What is a City Pioneer badge?
When you're the first to put a place on the map — no prior spot within about 25 miles — your spot earns City Pioneer. It stays on your profile per city, so early mappers keep the credit for opening their corner of the map.
Why map my own city instead of places I travel?
Both count. But your camera roll is deepest where you live — the viewpoints, corners and streets only locals know. Those are exactly the spots travelers can't find on maps built from business listings, and you already have them.
Put your city on the map.
Free on iOS and Android. Scan your roll, see your map, publish the spots your city deserves.