elsewhere.
A PERSONAL ATLAS
PERSONAL EDITIONS / VOL. 03
Saved on this device
FOR THE ART OF GOING & REMEMBERING

The places stay.
The story continues.

A LIFE, COLLECTED IN PLACES.

Some places become part of you.
The home you left. The city you loved.
The somewhere you still carry.

Your past, carried forward. ↗
A COLOR STORY OF YOUR OWNYour personal palette

The places that made me, me.

01 / YOUR ATLAS

Not a checklist. A collection of you.

Exploring a sample atlas
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A PERSONAL GEOGRAPHY
Tap a country to add your storyNatural Earth ·
Been toLived inTraveled to
02 / THE CITY EDIT

Fifty cities.
Endless stories.

A few familiar names. A few future memories.
A first collection of 50 cities around the world.
Which ones are part of your story?

10 of 50 citiesA curated edit, not a population ranking.
03 / TO KEEP & TO CARRY

The past is a place.
The future is yours.

Make something beautiful out of where you’ve been.
A keepsake for you. A little inspiration for someone else.

ADD TO YOUR ATLAS

A new little corner.
THE PERSONAL EDITIONS STUDIO / VOL. 03
A SAVED EDITION
Your saved personal travel map

On phones, touch and hold the image to see available image actions.
A WORLD THAT'S UNIQUELY YOURS

Some places become part of you.

Elsewhere is not a competition to see more. It is a way to remember what mattered, and leave room for what comes next.

01

Find your little corner.

Tap a country, search for a city, or switch to Drop a pin and tap anywhere to drop a pin. Enter coordinates as “latitude, longitude” for an exact location.

02

Tell its story.

Choose Been to, Lived in, Traveled to, or a combination. Add a year and a memory. Deselect with the × beside a saved place or the Deselect button in its dialog. Unchecking all connections also removes a saved place. Start over clears everything in one click; Undo brings it back. Home takes color priority, then travel.

03

Take your world with you.

Choose your colors and a line that feels like you. Save a square post, portrait story, or wide image. Keep favorite images in Saved editions. Atlas backups transfer places and the current style, not your saved image collection; download those images separately. Invite someone shares the website link, never your private atlas.

On phones: drag with one finger, pinch with two, and use the bottom navigation to switch between your map, your places, and the 50-city edit. The edit is a curated starting point, not a ranking; search works beyond these 50 cities.
YOUR ATLAS, YOUR WAY

A little housekeeping.

Saved in this browser, on this device. Export a backup before clearing browser data or switching devices.
THE SMALL PRINT, SIMPLY

Yours to keep.

Local-first, not cloud-synced

Your saved places, notes, and personal style stay in this browser's local storage. Your saved-edition image collection stays in this browser's IndexedDB storage. There is no account, built-in analytics tracker, paid AI service, or automatic upload of your atlas. Color and phrase choices are randomized locally, not based on tracking or a personality profile; combinations can repeat across visitors. The optional portrait and collection stars use transparent rules applied to your saved places. Both are off by default. Your optional name appears only when you enable its display. Clearing browser data removes local saves. When this site is hosted, the hosting provider receives ordinary web requests and associated technical information. Device backups can contain private locations; only share them intentionally.

Optional online services

Built-in search, bundled geography, personalization, and image export work offline once the core site has been cached after an online visit. Your browser may evict offline data. Expanded online search needs a connection. “Search more places online” sends your search term to the public Photon geocoder. Loading expanded world boundaries contacts the Natural Earth data repository on GitHub. These services receive normal request information, including your IP address.

A travel map, not a boundary authority

Country and regional boundaries are generalized and may not reflect recent changes or every disputed border. Small islands may appear as points. Countries and territories are counted together, and continent totals follow the dataset rather than political recognition.

Atlas coverage

Global state/province polygons load on demand with an internet connection. This is not a street-navigation map and does not claim a complete address directory. Ocean and continent entries represent a visit, not an entire area explored. Share cards summarize city and exact-pin entries by country when precise pins are hidden.

Data & creditsGeoNames · three additional city coordinates (CC BY 4.0) ↗Natural Earth · public-domain geography ↗US Census / Basemap · bundled state boundaries ↗CountryInfo · country and capital metadata (MIT) ↗Photon / © OpenStreetMap contributors · optional search ↗