A live map overlay for OBS

A mini map that follows you around, built for IRL streams. Add it to OBS as a Browser Source and you’re done.

Your viewers want to know where you are. A map in the corner answers that, so you don’t have to repeat it every five minutes in chat.

What it looks like

• Themes. Dark, Paper, Blueprint, Night neon, plain OpenStreetMap, and a few radars in the style of open-world driving games: modern, retro, sunset neon, concrete grey and a pixelated one. You can change every colour too: roads, water, parks, buildings.
• Shapes. Circle, rounded or square, with your own border and an optional N marker that slides around the edge when the map turns.
• Rotate with heading. The map turns so the way you’re going is always up, like the radar in a driving game.
• Zoom by speed. Close in when you’re walking, zoomed out on the highway. It eases between the two, so it doesn’t jump around.
• Trail and speed badge. Show where you’ve just been, and your speed right on the map.

It hides when it should

Walk into one of your dead zones and the map blurs out with a “location hidden” message, or disappears completely if you prefer. Hit pause on the dashboard and the same happens. When your stream ends, it stops updating.

If your stream runs on a delay, set the same delay in irlmap.live and the map stays in sync with what viewers actually see.

Editing is live

You change the overlay on the website and OBS picks it up within a second. No refreshing the Browser Source, no new link. The link never changes, so you only set it up once.

Setting it up

The OBS guide has the details. Short version: log in, open Overlays, pick the map (or one of the radar presets), copy the link, and add a Browser Source in OBS with that link and the size shown in the editor.

You’ll also need something sending your GPS. Your phone is fine for that: here’s how.