Shareable map from Gmail to Google Sheets
A map anyone can open, coloured by a column, with GeoJSON and KML downloads. Ask your AI in plain English: it reads Gmail, InstaMaps does the location work, and the results land in Google Sheets.
Gmail
InstaMapsShareable map
Google Sheets
Claude
ChatGPT
Copilot
GeminiThe prompt
Find this week's emails in my Gmail labelled "Orders" and pull out each delivery address, make a map of these places coloured by their Status column, with the names on the map, and put the results in a new tab of this Google Sheet: <link to a sheet>.
Replace the parts in <angle brackets>.What comes back
- A link to the map that anyone can open
- GeoJSON and KML files for GIS tools and Google Earth
- Anything that can't be placed or answered comes back with the reason. Nothing is dropped.
Set it up
Shareable map in Claude
Every plan, including Free. On Free, InstaMaps uses your one custom connector; Google Drive, Gmail and Google Calendar are directory connectors and don't count against it.
- In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors, and choose "Add custom connector".
- Name it InstaMaps and paste https://get-instamaps.com/mcp. Click Add.
- Click Connect and continue with Google. You land back in Claude, ready to ask.
- Add the Google Drive, Gmail or Google Calendar connector from the same Connectors page when the chain uses them.
- Paste the prompt above.
Before you start
Reading GmailConnect your AI tool's Gmail connector and label the emails you want read. The addresses pass through the chat, so keep it to a few hundred at a time.
Writing to Google SheetsInstaMaps writes to the sheet itself: share it with the address the answer gives you, as Editor. It adds new dated columns or a new tab, and never overwrites a cell.
Good to know
- Up to 2,500 pins a map. Change it later by asking: the link stays the same.
- The connector is free: 5,000 tool calls a day per person, and a whole sheet read by link counts as one call.
- Rather do it without an AI? Use the free tool on our site.
