A brand new "Places of Pride" map created by Google encourages users to mark special locations where they've felt a sense of pride on the world map with rainbow-colored drop pins.

"Places of Pride is a custom map that gives the LGBTQI community and supporters, a place to celebrate and remember their pride stories, memories, and moments, by marking their significant locations on the map with a Pride Pin," Google Maps Sydney team member Patrick Hofmann said in a blog post on the Google Australia Blog.

"A Place of Pride can be anywhere you’ve experienced or felt pride. Whether it’s where you came out to your friends or colleagues, met your partner, or supported provide and diversity in your community, we invite you to mark the places that represent your cherished memories of love, pride, or triumph on the Places of Pride."

Since it was launched Friday, ahead of this weekend's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Fair Day in Sydney, Pride Pins have been appearing on the map in places from Australia to Noth America, India, South America, and even the Middle East.

"I came out to my family," a pin dropped in Mumbai reads. "The place where I decided that I was going to ask my girlfriend to marry me," reads another on Australia's east coast.

Hofmann explained the map will serve to show people that LGBT pride is all over the world. He said he wished he had something similar in his younger years, when he struggled to come out due to fear of being isolated.

"In those struggling years, I would have loved to have seen a map that showed this reach of community," wrote Hofmann. "A map of “pride” would have given me more confidence, reassuring me that there were heaps of people truly like me, or truly in support of me – not just a distant global chorus from around the world, but potentially in my own rural community."

To view the map and drop your own pin, visit the Places of Pride here.

h/t: Mashable