Ahoy Map Maker
Ahoy Map Maker is a Mac app for creating customized maps with routes, placemarks, and highlighted areas for trips, events, and sharing.
What is Ahoy Map Maker?
Ahoy Map Maker is a native Mac mapping app that helps users create customized maps for trips, events, hikes, and shared plans. It lets you annotate map areas with routes, places of interest, and highlighted regions so other people can quickly understand directions or activity locations. The app is useful for travel planning, event organization, and simple visual map sharing when you want a clear image instead of a full GIS workflow. Users can place markers, draw paths, outline areas, and export map snapshots for sending to friends, family, or participants. Ahoy Map Maker is published under the Miavy name and is designed for straightforward personal and small-group planning on macOS.
Key features
- Draw routes directly on map areas to show directions or planned paths.
- Place markers to identify locations and points of interest.
- Highlight sections of a map for events, activity zones, or meeting areas.
- Create custom maps for trips, hikes, weddings, conferences, and gatherings.
- Export map snapshots as image files for easy sharing.
- Use a simple Mac interface for quick map annotation and planning.
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Ahoy Map Maker is a legitimate Mac app for map annotation and sharing. Its normal behavior is consistent with its purpose: working with map content you view and export. No unusual background activity or elevated system access is associated with its core use. As with any mapping app, review what location-related or file-access permissions you grant and keep the app updated through its normal distribution channel.
Recommendation: Keep Ahoy Map Maker if you use it to prepare custom maps for travel, events, or route planning. If you no longer create or export maps with it, removing the app is usually fine and may also leave behind ordinary support files that can be cleaned up separately later.
Common paths
/Applications/Ahoy Map Maker.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.miavy.Ahoy-Map-Maker
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/com.miavy.Ahoy-Map-Maker
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.miavy.Ahoy-Map-Maker.plist
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