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Detourmap
Every place worth the detour, on one interactive map
191 followers
Every place worth the detour, on one interactive map
191 followers
A free interactive world map of 70,520 places worth going out of your way for — ancient ruins, beaches, caves, waterfalls, volcanoes, monuments, sacred sites, castles, museums, gardens, theme parks and ghost towns across 350 countries. Pick a country, flip on the filters, and explore.
70k places is wild, and the country filter actually makes it usable instead of overwhelming. Spent a few minutes hunting for waterfalls in iceland and found three i'd never heard of.
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@amineertur23480 Iceland will do that. Which three did you find? If you narrow the fame filter to just Hidden gem it gets even better there, the famous falls drop away and only the properly obscure ones are left.
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@etiennegarcia This made my day, thank you. Finding things you didn't know to search for is exactly what I wanted it to do. Now I need to know which cave has the lake in it.
Just spent a bit flipping the layers on the globe — the taxonomy is what got me (~14k sacred sites vs. under 600 ghost towns is a great contrast). One question: how’s “fame” scored for the famous → hidden-gem filter — Wikipedia sitelinks, pageviews, or something of your own? Congrats on the launch!
70k pins across 350 countries is a great scope for this. one thing I'd wonder about with a Wikidata-sourced map - coverage tends to skew toward regions with a lot of editors, so western europe ends up way denser than say central asia or west africa even if those places have just as much worth seeing. does the density on the map reflect that editor bias, or have you done anything to correct for it?
Finally a map that actually makes me want to get off the beaten path, and the filter system makes it so easy to hunt down hidden waterfalls and ghost towns near wherever I am traveling.
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@kaanildan84332 Thank you! If ghost towns are your thing, the Abandoned & ghost towns layer runs 584 deep, including Pyramiden, a Soviet mining town left behind on Svalbard.
Finally a travel map that doesn't just slap pins on cities. Filtering by waterfalls and ruins is super satisfying.
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@ealtunkoza58547 Satisfying is the exact word I was hoping for, thank you. If you haven't tried it yet, hit the Surprise me button, it's deliberately rigged toward the obscure end.
Finally a map tool that feels built for actual daydreaming. I flipped on castles and got completely lost for twenty minutes wandering through Romania and Scotland.
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@taner140399 Twenty minutes lost in Romanian castles sounds about right. If you haven't crossed it yet, look up Corvin Castle in Hunedoara, it barely looks real. Scotland with the Ancient & megalithic layer on is also a good time.