Use cases
Saving listings from a real-estate site
Saturday went to Idealista, or Immobiliare, or whichever real-estate portal reads the local market best. By Sunday the browser is a graveyard of forty open tabs and you cannot remember which town the cheap one was in. This is the path from that graveyard to a map of candidates you can actually argue about with a partner.
The situation
A household typically chews through around 30 listings before anything starts to crystallize. Most are forgettable by Monday. The handful that stick deserve to live somewhere other than open browser tabs: on a map, with notes, ready to compare.
The path
- 01Collect the listings into one place
Plain text with one address per line works. CSV with address, price, and URL works better — see the bulk import reference for the format.
- 02Open the map for the country you are looking at
Italy currently carries the richest data layer; other countries have a thinner one, but the import flow is identical.
- 03Click Bulk import
The dialog accepts up to two hundred rows per submission. Two batches of one hundred are kinder to the rate limit than one batch of two hundred.
- 04Review the matches
The dialog flags rows where confidence is low. Edit the address, add a city or postcode, and resubmit just those rows.
- 05Read the clusters
Pins land where your listings land. The surprise cluster — a town you did not expect to keep noticing — is usually the one worth driving through.
- 06Save the cluster locations to a shortlist
Click each location underneath a cluster, hit Save. Two or three locations is enough — you do not need every listing as a separate entry.
- 07Compare the shortlisted locations
Open the compare table from the shortlist drawer. The metric differences will often eliminate one cluster on the spot.
What you walk away with
- A map of pins covering every listing you considered worth typing in.
- A shortlist of two or three locations that those listings cluster around.
- A compare-table URL you can send to a partner or estate agent.
- A clear sense of which cluster deserves a recon trip and which can be dropped.
When this does not fit
If you are looking at one specific building rather than a region, this whole flow is overkill. A browser bookmark and a calendar invite cover it. Bulk import earns its keep only when "where, broadly" is still an open question.
Frequently asked
Do I need an account?
For bulk import and saving pins, yes. The shortlist and compare table work without one, but you will not be able to keep listings as pins.
What if my listings are in two different countries?
Two imports, one per country. Pins are tied to a country bounding box; mixing them in one import means half will silently fail.
How do I share my pin map with a partner?
Today, the cleanest path is sharing the compare-table URL once you have narrowed down to a shortlist. Pin-by-pin sharing is on the roadmap.
The geocoder put a pin a few streets off.
Click the pin, delete it, and re-add the location manually through the details panel for the correct spot. The difference is usually a missing postcode in the original address.
Verified · 2026-05-26