Detourmap

Every place worth the detour, on one interactive map

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So cool! Awesome work collecting this data. I’m from Brazil, but I lived in the Czech Republic for a while and had the chance to visit many of the “hidden gems” that most people wouldn’t find on Google Maps, simply because I made local friends who took me to those places.

I looked into it, and Detourmap is really solid when it comes to finding places that locals don’t usually tell everyone about (at least in Europe).

To be honest, I noticed a gap in my area of Brazil. I live in a small state called Espírito Santo, where we have countless waterfalls and hidden spots to explore, but the current data didn’t find many of them. I can definitely see how challenging it is to collect such a specific dataset. Have you considered encouraging community contributions so people can submit new places?

70k places is honestly a lot more than I expected, and the filter setup makes it really easy to just zoom in on something specific like castles or waterfalls without scrolling forever.

Love how dense the map feels without being overwhelming, and the filter for stuff like sacred sites and ghost towns is a really nice touch for planning weirder trips.

The fame filter running from world-famous down to deep-cut hidden gems is the part I'd actually use — most travel maps just drown you in the obvious stuff. When I flip on a few layers and set the fame filter for, say, caves and ruins in Portugal, can I share that exact filtered view as a link so a travel buddy opens the same map state? And is there a way to save pins into a personal list I can pull back up on the trip, or export them to Google Maps for navigation once I'm actually on the road?

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?

This looks superb! What is the best way to suggest hidden gems? Could this integrate with All Trails?

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!

Finally a travel map that doesn't just slap pins on cities. Filtering by waterfalls and ruins is super satisfying.

This is genuinely really cool. I already found two museums nearby that I’d never heard of, and even some surprisingly large caves in a neighboring town, including one with a lake. What I really like is that it helps you find places you wouldn’t even know to search for on Google. You just explore the map and suddenly discover things that actually interest you. Really like this! Congrats on the launch!👏

Really cool concept, the filters are a nice touch for narrowing things down. One thing that would help me actually use it on the road is offline access or downloadable region packs, since signal can get spotty when you're already out of your way at a remote ruin or waterfall.

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.

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.

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.

Would love to see a road trip mode that lets you draw a route between two points and shows every detour-worthy spot along the way, sorted by how little extra driving each one adds.

love that this exists, the filtering sounds solid. one thing i'd actually want though is a "near me" mode that uses your location to surface places within a driving radius, kind of like setting a max distance so you can find hidden spots for a weekend trip without manually scanning the map

love the "surprise me" bias toward obscure over famous, that's the right default for this kind of tool. since it's built off Wikidata, how do you handle places that get edited or delisted after you pull the data - is there a refresh cycle, or does it slowly drift out of date until you re-sync?