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. 👣
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.
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