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Elm Social Route: Chat on map

Chat on the map with privacy — custom route, trip colab.

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Elm Social Route is a map-based social app that lets you discover and share local spots, chat with nearby people, and plan trips — all with privacy at its core.

Features:
LOCAL MAP CHAT
Place your chats directly on the map so others can discover them by location. Whether it's a hidden café, a scenic trail, or a local event — pin it, share it, and let the map tell the story.
GEOFENCED CHAT
Some conversations are just for the locals. Create location-based chats only visible to nearby users — perfect for neighborhood updates, local tips, or spontaneous meetups.
CHATS WITH EVENTS
Attach real context to your conversations. Add a location, a custom route, or a full trip to your chat — so your message comes with everything others need to join in or follow along.
CUSTOM ROUTE BUILDER
Build and share your own routes with paths, connectors, and markers. Share a hiking trail, a city walk, or a road trip route — exactly as you experienced it.
TRAVEL PLANNER (TRIP PLANNER)
Organize your adventures with the built-in trip planner. Add locations, routes, chats, or other trips, arrange them in order, and let the auto-connect feature link everything together seamlessly.
COLLABORATIVE TRIP PLANNING (TRIP COLAB)
Planning with friends? Trip members can collaboratively edit a shared trip.
CHAT EXPIRATION
Chats have an expiration date. Once expired, comments lock and the chat moves down the list — keeping the feed fresh, relevant, and clutter-free.
REPS
Forget likes. Elm uses a reputation system — Reps — to surface quality content and reward genuine contributions from the community.
PRIVATE & SECURE
Privacy isn't an afterthought here — it's the foundation. Elm Social Route is designed from the ground up to give you control over who sees your content and where.
SPAM REDUCTION
A combination of chat expiration, Reps, and AI-powered reporting will keep the community cleaner and less spam.

WHO IS ELM SOCIAL ROUTE FOR?
Travelers and tourists looking for a local travel guide and trip planner.
Locals who want to share neighborhood discoveries with people nearby.
Friend groups planning collaborative trips together.
Anyone who values a private and secure map based social experience.

Navigate the world your neighbors know. 👣

Origin

Hi, my name is Red. I'm the creator of this app.
Elm came from my frustration when using Google Maps dynamic routing because its algorithm often gave me either road that is too narrow for car to drive or path that is too quiet and scary to walk. So back then, I built an app with the ability to save routing results so I can just choose one of them later.
It first came as an app named "Where I Should Go Now" for iOS around 2013, which I then rebuilt for Android as "Lungo" ("Going somewhere" in Javanese) around 2015.
Then around 2020, I built Elm. This time, I built an app that allows users to draw their own routes and have conversations with others. Elm eventually became an app that enables users to chat and create events on the map.
Elm uses Phantasm, a package that I have been developing from the start which enables creation of shapes above a map.

Contact

elmsocialroute@gmail.com

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