ExploreMap Blog

Notes on better travel memory: product updates, travel data portability, map organization, and practical ways to keep a personal travel archive.

• The Voyage of the Beagle on ExploreMap

  We mapped Charles Darwin's five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle around the world on ExploreMap, stop by stop.

• Zheng He's Voyages in 3D

  The Ming treasure fleet's seven-voyage route, now playing back on a rotating 3D globe.

• Zheng He's Voyages

  Mapping the Ming treasure fleet's seven expeditions across the Indian Ocean, from Nanjing to East Africa.

• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils on ExploreMap

  We mapped Selma Lagerlöf's classic tale of a boy's goose-back journey across Sweden, stop by stop, as a public ExploreMap trip.

• From the Apennines to the Andes on ExploreMap

  We mapped Edmondo De Amicis' classic tale of a boy's solo journey from Genoa to Argentina in search of his mother, stop by stop, as a public ExploreMap trip.

• Around the World in 80 Days on ExploreMap

  We mapped Phileas Fogg's classic circumnavigation as a public ExploreMap trip, from London around the globe and back again.

• Mapping the Lewis and Clark Expedition

  We plotted the Corps of Discovery's full 8,000-mile, two-year route on ExploreMap, stop by stop.

• Why your travel map should be private first

  A better way to keep the places you have been, the places you love, and the trips still forming in your head.