Put your public Room on the map
Give a public Room one useful place so people can see where the community belongs—without sharing where its owner or members are.
The Room says the Saturday meetup starts at nine. A new member still has one question: nine o’clock where?
In PingRoom 1.5.3 beta, a public Room can carry one optional public place. The owner chooses the point on a map, confirms it, and saves it with the Room. That gives a venue-based community—such as a running club, market, school group, or event—a stable answer before the first Ping arrives.
As of September 21, this remains a beta feature, not a public App Store or Google Play release claim. PingRoom’s official beta page lists version 1.5.3 on both tracks: iOS TestFlight build 137 and Android beta build 63.
On the cover: Pingo the Pigeon™, our official mascot and fictional CMO, has pinned the pavilion rather than himself. AI-generated editorial artwork using approved Pingo references; not a map, app screen, customer scene, or claim of live tracking.
Choose the place while creating or editing the Room
Make the Room public, then open its optional Location field and choose Select a Location. On the map, you can:
- tap the point you want;
- drag the marker to adjust it; or
- choose Use Current Location to start from the device’s foreground position.
Review the selected place, then save it. If you use the device’s current location, PingRoom asks for foreground location access at that moment. You can also select a point manually on the map.
The best location is usually the place the community is built around: a park entrance, community hall, campus, public venue, or district. PingRoom warns owners that this place will be public and recommends avoiding a private home address.
The marker describes the Room, not the people
A public Room location is stable Room information. It does not become a trail of where the owner goes, a live position for members, or a location attached to every Ping.
That distinction matters. A running Room can point to the park where the group meets even when its organizer is at work. A market Room can identify the market grounds without showing where any vendor is after closing time.
Pingo’s tabletop makes the boundary literal: the marker belongs to the venue model. There is no marker under Pingo and no path following him. His fictional CMO role does not give him access to anyone’s device location, account, or private Rooms.
Pick the least detail that still helps
Use a precise venue when everyone genuinely needs the same entrance. Use a park, campus, district, or city when the Room serves a wider area.
Before saving, ask one question: Would I be comfortable showing this place to anyone who can open the public Room? If the answer is no, move the marker to a broader public place or leave the location empty.
The saved place can appear with the Room in public discovery and previews. It also lets people narrow Discover to a city or use Near me to look for public Rooms around them. That browsing flow is covered in Find the public Rooms close to you.
Change the boundary when the Room changes
The location is optional. An owner can reopen the selector to move the point or remove it. If the community no longer has a meaningful place, leaving the field empty is better than keeping an old marker.
Making the Room private clears its public location information. A private Room is no longer part of location-based public discovery.
One Room, one useful place, no moving dot. That is enough to help the right people understand where the community belongs.
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