Travel is what you have collected, experienced and become.
A Nomad’s Guide is a guide to remarkable places around the world, and a record of the ones you have been to. Mark somewhere you have been and it turns green on your globe. Every collection that place belongs to counts one closer to done.
Places in the guide
9,243
Collections to work through
321
How the guide is put together
What a collection is
A finite set of places with a total attached. A country, a region, a category such as waterfalls or temples, or a list somebody sat down and made. The total is what turns a map into something you can finish, and it is why a collection page shows the places still ahead of you on the same screen as the ones behind.
Countries, regions and categories work out their own membership from the places themselves, so a new place in Japan joins the Japan collection the day it is added. That cuts both ways, and it is worth knowing before you go looking for a bug: a collection you have finished can open back up when the guide grows into it. Progress here follows the catalog rather than freezing the moment you close something out.
Where the places come from
The catalog is chosen and maintained by hand rather than scraped off a map, and it grows in sittings as places are researched and added. Where a place has a Wikipedia article, its description is an extract from it, abridged and credited under CC BY-SA 4.0 on the page it appears on. Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under their own licences, credited on the place’s own page to the photographer who took it. Where the writing is ours, there is no credit line, because there is nothing to credit.
How it works out where to send you next
The suggestions on your dashboard are scored against your own record: how near a place is to somewhere you have been, which collections you are closest to closing, the categories you keep choosing, and how many other travellers have collected it. A share of every list is held back for a country you have never set foot in, because a ranking built on where you have been will otherwise keep sending you back there.
No language model is involved, and nothing about you is sent anywhere to produce it. The same rule runs for everyone. Only the record it reads is yours.
How it works
LGBTQ+ Heritage
7 of 11
64
Civil Rights Movement
3 of 11
27
Scenic Train Rides
1 of 5
20
Step 1 of 4
Find a collection worth finishing
Countries, categories, and lists somebody sat down and made. Each one counts what it holds, so you can see the whole of it before you have collected any of it.
Step 2 of 4
Mark the places you have been
Tap a place on the map, or work through a country from a list. Each one is filed with its date, and a wrong tap can be taken back.
64%
LGBTQ+ Heritage
7 of 11Voyager
64
Step 3 of 4
Watch the map fill in
The count moves, the ring fills, and you cross into the next rank. What is still ahead of you sits on the same screen as what you have done.
LGBTQ+ Heritage
7 of 11 collected
A Nomad’s Guide
Step 4 of 4
Show what you have collected
Your world with your own places lit on it, or the badge you just earned, as an image you can send to anybody. No account needed to look at it.
What there is to collect
Countries, regions, categories, and lists picked by hand. Every one of them counts what it holds, so you always know how much is left.
Every place in the guide is free to collect, along with the map, the timeline, the badges and every collection the guide holds. Premium is for the travelling the catalog has never heard of: your own trips written up as journeys, lists of your own, and the places you add yourself.
Everything you record is visible only to you until you decide otherwise. Your profile is private unless you switch it on. Sharing a journey or a collection mints a link, and what that link carries is a set of separate switches: the itinerary or the list, then your written notes, then your photographs and the places you added yourself. Each one starts off. Turning sharing off destroys the link rather than pausing it, and turning it back on issues a different address.
Questions, a payment that went wrong, or something the app got wrong: support@anomadsguide.com. For anything about your own data, including a copy of it or its deletion: privacy@anomadsguide.com.
