Changelog
What's changed on Detourmap, newest first. The map refreshes from Wikidata, so the places themselves improve whenever the commons does.
July 18, 2026 Launch eve
- The globe now greets you with country bubbles from the very first view — before, there was nothing to press until you zoomed in.
- Fixed on phones: closing a place card took two taps. A tap set a phantom “hover” under the pin; now a tap only pins, and one tap on ✕ closes.
- Rewrote the copy on every page in a plainer voice, and dropped the Beta badge.
- The four sister atlases now link here, and Detourmap links all four back.
- New, quieter social card.
- The map can now live on your page too — see Embed the map.
- Pinned cards now load each place’s full Wikipedia lead (a header bug had silently blocked it), and long stories expand with a tap — Read more.
- The whole dataset is now downloadable (CSV & GeoJSON, CC0), and AI assistants can query it live over the MCP server.
July 15, 2026 The guide, castles, and a quality pass
- The guide: ~1,100 static pages — every country and every kind, readable without the map (or JavaScript).
- Castles, fortresses and palaces became their own layer, and every card now carries a short description.
- The dataset settled at 70,520 places across 350 countries after a quality pass that dropped mis-tagged landmasses and “places” the size of countries.
July 14, 2026 Three versions in one day
- Detourmap went live in the morning: ~32,000 places on one night map.
- By afternoon: a spinnable globe, dots that reveal by fame as you zoom, and a split dataset so the world view paints fast.
- By evening: 63,500 places, now including museums, gardens, theme parks and other attractions.