About Wayfarer
Researched trip plans and a growing list of places, with the source of every fact kept.
What it is
Each trip is a Day 1 to Day N plan with the season it is valid for, so you can copy it and pick your own dates. Each place has its own page with a map, timings and conditions, and says plainly when a fact has not been checked yet.
Accounts
Reading needs no account. An account keeps your own trips and saved places on our server, so they are on every device you sign in on. Until we finish moving everything online, what you make before or without signing in, and your display preferences, stay on this device only.
Credits
The interface is built on the work of others. Photographs are credited where they appear, and the data sources are on About the data.
Design
Material Design 3 (Google)
Interaction patterns: states, motion, elevation and touch targets follow it.
Icons
Material Symbols (Google)
Every icon in the interface.
Apache License 2.0
Fonts
Plus Jakarta Sans
Headings.
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Fonts
Inter
Body text and labels.
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Components
Base UI (@base-ui/react)
Behaviour of menus, dialogs, tabs and fields. The look is our own.
MIT License
Maps
MapLibre GL JS
Draws the maps and the globe.
BSD 3-Clause License
Maps
OpenFreeMap
Map tiles.
MIT License; attribution is required and shown on every map: “OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles Data from OpenStreetMap”
Maps
OpenStreetMap contributors
Map data under the map tiles, and the route shapes drawn on trail tiles and place pages from stored OpenStreetMap tracks.
Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0
More
- About the data: where the maps, places, photographs and weather come from, and the licence for each.
- Terms and copyright: what you are welcome to do with the site, and what you are not.
- Privacy: what the site keeps about you, and what it does not.
- : a wrong fact, a broken link or a photo that does not belong. It opens a short form on this page; please keep personal details out of it.