Side Quests / Personal Maps
Personal Maps & Walk Tracking
A long-running interest in maps you own yourself: where you’ve been, how far you’ve walked, and how places look when you treat them as personal geography rather than a social feed. Related products span hex map tooling, private travel history, Camino-style walk progress, and live Iberian train boards.
Mapa preview — getmapa.com
Why it matters
Place history and walk logs are useful for memory, planning, and sometimes practical stays (visas, taxes) — but they don’t need to leave the device as raw routes or photos. That preference shows up in product choices and in the privacy policy: on-device content first; aggregate counts for analytics when helpful, not “where you’ve been” as a server-side trail.
It also sits next to Google Local Guide and photography— public place photos and reviews on one side, private personal maps and walks on the other.
Projects & apps
Official app artwork and screenshots from the linked product and store listings.
Map Your by GetMapa.com
H3 map editor — create and visualize hexagonal maps with geospatial indexing.
Been & Done Travel Journal Map
Private travel and place history — remember where you’ve been without shipping your route data to the cloud by default.
My Personal Camino de Santiago
Walk tracker — turn everyday walks into progress toward Santiago de Compostela, with GPS stats, maps, and replay. Journey data stays on device.
VeryStays: Trains in Iberia
Live Iberian train boards for 400+ stations in Portugal and Spain — departures, trip countdown, Home Screen widget, and Live Activities.
