diff --git a/doc/api/apis/maps.raml b/doc/api/apis/maps.raml
index ad1666dd..d3361a70 100644
--- a/doc/api/apis/maps.raml
+++ b/doc/api/apis/maps.raml
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ post:
           description: Created
           body:
             application/json:
-              example: !include ../examples/map.json
+              example: !include ../examples/map_starred.json
     delete:
       responses:
         204:
diff --git a/doc/api/examples/map_starred.json b/doc/api/examples/map_starred.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..59fa8252
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/api/examples/map_starred.json
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{
+    "data": {
+        "id": 2,
+        "name": "Emergent Network Phenomena",
+        "desc": "Example map for the API",
+        "permission": "commons",
+        "screenshot": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/metamaps-assets/site/missing-map.png",
+        "starred": true,
+        "created_at": "2016-03-26T08:02:05.379Z",
+        "updated_at": "2016-03-27T07:20:18.047Z",
+        "topic_ids": [
+            58,
+            59
+        ],
+        "synapse_ids": [
+            2
+        ],
+        "mapping_ids": [
+            94,
+            95,
+            96
+        ],
+        "collaborator_ids": [],
+        "contributor_ids": [
+            2
+        ]
+    }
+}