GTA 6 interactive map: how to use the Vice City companion

What this map is (and is not)

305 HQ’s interactive map is a fan-made pin tracker you can use when Grand Theft Auto VI is out. It is not the official GTA 6 map, and we are not selling Leonida or trailer geography as a product you can buy now.

It is not an official Rockstar Games product, and it is not affiliated with Take-Two. Nothing on the map should be read as a leak, a confirmed in-game business list, or a Rockstar collectible checklist. The pins are geographic reference points: beaches, downtown blocks, keys, and counties drawn from a Leonida dataset so the pre-launch map has a real shape instead of a blank island.

That honesty matters for search and for play. A lot of “GTA 6 map” pages invent complete lists of statues, cards, or shop names months before the game ships. This companion does not. When Rockstar’s own content is out, the tracker is still useful — as a place you control, not as a spoiler dump. If you need a phone wallpaper or a thumbnail, those live in separate tools; the map’s job is geography and progress.

Who it is for

If you want to know where Ocean Beach sits relative to Downtown Vice City, or how Port Gellhorn relates to the Keys, this map is for you. It is also for players who will mark progress privately once the game is out, without opening a full location blog on day one.

Creators can use it as a shared reference when a video is about a place: link a district guide instead of pasting a raw coordinate list. Casual fans who only want the countdown and wallpapers can ignore it; the tools on the site are separate, and the map does not require the game to be installed.

Founders and waitlist readers who saw “Map Companion” on the homepage are looking at the same idea sold in Scout and Pro language: mark finds, plan a short route, keep spoilers masked until you choose otherwise. The live boards you actually pan are /map, /island, and /map2 — the companion marketing page is the early-access door, not a second secret atlas.

How to use the map

Open the map, pan and zoom, and turn on the districts or layers you care about. Search when you already know a name; explore when you do not. When you have actually been somewhere — in the real-world sense of studying the map, or later in-game — mark that place as found. Progress stays on your device so a refresh does not wipe the list.

Start small. Pick one district, skim its guide only for density and names, then switch back to the map. The guides on this site describe the companion dataset; they do not walk through missions or puzzle solutions. Filters exist so you are not forced to stare at every pin at once.

If a region already has a district page, use that page as a density check, then return to the interactive board to mark. If it does not, the place still belongs on the map — we only publish separate district URLs when an area already has enough plotted landmarks to justify a page.

Island view versus the main map

305 HQ ships related views rather than one blank canvas. The island view is the gold studio map — the cinematic board you see in marketing and on the homepage hero. Use it when you want the shaped ATLAS look and a focused pass over the core island. Props you build in Assets Generator can also sit here as your own pins.

The wider Leonida map is better when you are comparing counties, scanning a larger coastline, or jumping between areas that sit farther apart. There is also an embedded ATLAS companion route for the full interactive board. All of them share the same idea: geographic landmarks as reference, your own found marks as progress.

None of them is a substitute for Rockstar’s in-game pause map once GTA 6 is in your hands; they are companions around it. Spoiler-masked solution cards are part of the island experience; the wider Leonida board leans on landmark descriptions and found-state without pretending every pin is a puzzle card.

Standout features

Spoiler-free marking

Most location blogs fail the first week of a new GTA by publishing every pin in one scroll. That is fine after you have finished an area. It is a bad default when you still want to find things yourself.

The companion separates the tool from the write-up. You mark a place only when you open it or clear it. District pages name a sample of landmarks so you can tell how dense an area is — not so you can complete a fake checklist before launch.

After November 19, 2026, keep that habit: one district at a time, mark what you reached, come back when you want the next area rather than the answer to a puzzle. If you are watching a creator’s map video, pause before they zoom to a reward and mark your own finds first — the companion is built for that pace.

Before launch and after

Before launch, use the map to learn names and layout. Pair it with the district directory if you want a short list of areas that already have enough plotted places for their own pages. Join the waitlist if you want a note when the companion updates; ignore any site that claims a full official collectible list this early.

After launch, the same board is where you track finds without dumping the whole island on one screen. Collectible types, prices, and mission order will not be complete on day one anywhere honest — including here. What you can have ready is a map you already know how to filter, and a marking habit that does not spoil the story for you.

When Rockstar publishes real in-game categories, expect the companion to grow carefully rather than overnight. Until then, treat every pin as geography you chose to care about — beaches, downtown blocks, keys — and leave invented statue lists to less careful pages.