Set the city first, then move the pin. The map does not accept an address, but it does accept a position, and there are three ways to give it one.
- Click the map. The pin jumps to where you clicked and the map zooms in.
- Drag the pin. Pick it up, drop it on the roof of the building, let go.
- Type the numbers. Below the map are Lat and Lng boxes. Type into both, then press Enter, click the tick, or click away from the box. Any of the three applies the change.
Each box holds 12 characters, which is room for a sign and six decimal places, and that is the precision the map stores. Six decimal places is about a tenth of a metre, so the limit here is your own knowledge of the site rather than the field.
Latitude must be between -90 and 90, longitude between -180 and 180. Outside those, the tick stays greyed out and nothing is applied.
The save is automatic, half a second later
There is no save button. Half a second after you stop moving the pin, the new position is written. UNI then looks up an address for that point and renames the location to match, which is why the label under the map can change a moment after the pin does.
If that lookup fails or takes too long, the coordinates are still saved. You end up with a location named after its own numbers, in the form Location at 26.9211, 75.8100. Nothing is broken and the pin is in the right place; only the name is unhelpful. Nudging the pin again usually produces a name on the second try.
What is live and what waits for Publish
The two actions on this page do not behave the same way:
- Choosing a new place from the search builds a new location record and puts it in your draft. Your public page keeps the old one until you press Publish.
- Moving the pin or typing coordinates edits the record that is already attached. If your published project is using that record, the pin on the public page moves without a publish.
Press Publish at the end either way, so your draft and your live page agree. What the project editor saves on its own covers the rest of the editor.
The pin is what puts you on the Atlas
A project appears on the Atlas map from its coordinates, so a pin dropped roughly in the right city is enough to be on the map, and an exact pin is what makes the map useful to someone reading your work. If your project is published with a location and still is not showing, Why your project is missing from the Atlas map runs through the four checks in order.