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Pin Drop vs BatchGeo
BatchGeo turns the address column of a spreadsheet into a map and makes that trick feel ordinary. The catch shows up later, when the map needs editing in the field, sharing with a team or keeping private. This is a pragmatic comparison for anyone weighing the switch during a mid-year tool review.
Publish a map vs run one
BatchGeo turns a spreadsheet into a map once. Pin Drop is the map your team runs every week.
Re-upload vs live editing
Change the sheet and republish, or edit the pin in place and everyone sees it.
A shared link vs a private map
A link anyone can open, or a map shared only with named people.
A snapshot vs a system of record
A picture of last Tuesday's sheet, or the place the notes actually live.
When the spreadsheet map stops being enough.
Most mapping projects begin the same way. Someone has a spreadsheet with a column of addresses, a column of names and a status column somebody keeps half updated. It does its job until the day it needs to be seen as a map. That is the moment BatchGeo earned its reputation: paste a spreadsheet, get a screen of pins, share a link. For a one-off view it is hard to beat.
The trouble is that the work rarely stays a one-off. The territory grows, the site list doubles, a second person needs to edit it, a rep wants to add a note from a car park in Leeds at 4pm on a wet Tuesday. The spreadsheet map was built to display a dataset once. The job in front of most teams is to run an operation every working week, and every change to the ground truth becomes a small re-upload, so by the third month the map and the sheet have quietly drifted apart.
BatchGeo is good at the thing it was designed for. The question is not whether it works, but whether a paste-and-publish tool is the right shape for a team that lives in its map five days a week.
Side by side
How Pin Drop compares with BatchGeo
The capabilities that matter when you move your map across.
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Sectors represented
Amazon
Nike
Adobe
Oracle
Pfizer
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Mars
Walmart
Whole Foods
M&S
Mastercard
Capital One
Barclays
AT&T
Toyota
Volvo
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UPS
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NHS
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Cargill
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Questions you might have
Is Pin Drop a replacement for BatchGeo?
Yes, for teams who need a living map rather than a one-off. BatchGeo turns a spreadsheet into a map you publish. Pin Drop is a shared map your team edits in place, from the field, every week.
Can I import my BatchGeo spreadsheet into Pin Drop?
Yes. Import the same spreadsheet or CSV you paste into BatchGeo, organise the pins into shared maps and add notes, photos and visits. It syncs across mobile and desktop, with no re-upload to refresh the map.
Can I keep my Pin Drop map private?
Yes. Pin Drop maps are private by default and shared with named people, rather than reachable by anyone who has a link. That is the difference between a map you can put client detail on and one you cannot.
How much does Pin Drop cost compared with BatchGeo?
Pin Drop has a free plan for teams of up to ten with no card, and paid plans billed per seat. Run the numbers on your real usage rather than on map size or the number of maps.
