How to use — and how to keep yourself hidden from — Snapchat’s new Maps feature

For a mapping feature, Snap Maps is not very easy to locate.

But if you do manage to find it — we can help with that — Snapchat’s latest innovation, which came out a few weeks ago, will show you where your friends are in real time and what other events may be going on around your city or state.

The map was built by Snapchat with the help of mapping technology from a San Francisco startup called MapBox, and resembles the product from another location-sharing startup called Zenly, a Benchmark-backed startup that Snapchat recently acquired.