Places

What Are Places?

Places are named geographic locations within your realm. They represent meaningful points on the map — towns, landmarks, trailheads, or any location where signals were captured. Places provide geographic context for your signals and serve as anchor points on the Atlas map.

Auto-Detection from GPS Data

When you upload a signal with EXIF or GPS metadata, Autonomy Realms automatically extracts the coordinates and associates the signal with a place. If no matching place exists for those coordinates, a new place is created. This means your place library grows organically as you add signals from new locations.

Managing Places

From the Places admin panel, you can:

• Rename a place to give it a more meaningful or consistent name
• Merge two or more places that represent the same location — all associated signals are reassigned to the surviving place
• Delete a place — signals previously linked to it will become unplaced

Merging is particularly useful when auto-detection creates duplicate entries for the same location due to slight coordinate variations.

Places on the Atlas Map

Each place appears as a point on the Atlas map. Clicking a place marker reveals the signals associated with that location. Places help visitors navigate your realm geographically, providing a spatial entry point into your signal archive.

Filtering Signals by Place

You can filter your signal stream or Atlas view by place to see only signals captured at a specific location. This is useful for exploring everything associated with a particular site over time.