Explore map · location tools

Search a place, tap it, and your map is there.

Teleport is the first control in the location tools row, under the Explore map's results card. It opens a search modal: type at least two characters, pick a result, and your position jumps there.

Free in the RU4M app — iOS and Android.

RU4M app — the Teleport search modal open over the Explore map, listing place results for a typed query

1st

control in the location tools row, under the results card

2

characters minimum before results come back

Local bias

the search is weighted toward where you are

Recenter

leaving a teleported view is a button of its own, above the card

How it works

Tap, type, tap.

  1. Open Teleport

    On the Explore map, tap Teleport — the first control in the location tools row, under the results card. A search modal opens over the map, with the field already focused.

  2. Type at least two characters

    Results come back as you type. Your current position goes with the query, so the search leans toward the places around you.

  3. Tap a result

    Your position jumps to it, and the map redraws around the new place. Nothing else to confirm.

What refreshes

The whole map moves with you.

Tap a result and everything anchored to your position re-renders around the new place.

  • The map itself
  • The nearby pins
  • The clusters
RU4M app — Teleport updating the selected location
RU4M app — the Explore map after a teleport, with nearby pins and clusters redrawn around the new location
The Teleport moment

Watch your map move to a new place.

Search for a place, choose it, and RU4M refreshes the map around your new position.

Round trip

Leaving a teleported view is a control of its own.

The recenter button

Not one of the location tools: it is a floating button above the results card, labelled “Center map on my location”. That button is how you leave a teleported view.

RU4M Explore map with the recenter control above the results card

Blue border, green border

A teleported user carries a blue border on their pin, so nobody has to guess whether you are really there. Green is a different state — that pin is locked, not teleported.

RU4M location-locked confirmation screen
  • Blue border — this person has teleported
  • Green border — this person’s location is locked

Locking, unlocking and hiding your location are Location Controls, on the Explore feature page.

Documented use cases

Why people teleport.

Pre-conference networking

Teleport to the host city before the event and browse the people already on the map there.

Job-market research

Considering a move? Put your position in the city you are weighing up and see the professionals around it.

Global networking

Any place the search finds, from wherever you happen to be.

Are you 4 meeting in another city?

Search it, tap it, and the map is already there.
Free on iOS and Android.