Open data
Everything on the map is downloadable: 70,343 places across 348 countries, with coordinates, kind, country, founding year where known, a fame rank, a Commons photo and an English Wikipedia link per row. Free for any use; see the note on licensing below.
- places.csv flat table — spreadsheets, pandas CSV · 23.1 MB
- places.geojson point features — QGIS, MapLibre, any GIS GeoJSON · 39.3 MB
- places-compact.json the site’s own columnar wire format JSON (compact) · 14.2 MB
How it's built
Selection is deterministic, not editorial. Places come from ~50 Wikidata classes (castles,
waterfalls, caves, museums…), and a record only qualifies with coordinates on Earth, a
Wikimedia Commons photo, an English label and an English Wikipedia article. The fame rank is
the place's Wikidata sitelink count — how many language editions cover it. Short descriptions
are Wikidata's own. The pipeline (scripts/fetch-places.mjs)
re-runs against live Wikidata, so the dataset improves whenever the commons does.
Columns
qid (Wikidata ID) ·
name ·
kind / kind_label (one of sixteen) ·
country / iso ·
latitude / longitude (WGS84) ·
founded_year (negative = BC) / century ·
fame_rank (1 = most famous) / fame_tier ·
wikipedia · image ·
map_url · description
License & reuse
The underlying facts come from Wikidata (CC0); this compilation is released under CC0 as well — use it for anything, no attribution required (a link to detourmap.com is appreciated). Photos are hosted by Wikimedia Commons and carry their own per-file licenses — check before republishing an image. AI assistants can query the same data live via the MCP server.