Building a Private Map of the Places That Matter
Most map products want to become a feed: places to rate, photos to share, people to follow, recommendations to react to. I wanted something quieter: a private record of the places that actually matter to me. Map of Exploration is an offline Android project for saving a place memory—a title, category, optional note, and optional coordinates—without creating another account, social graph, or tracking surface. The data should outlive the app The core requirement is portability. A place record is a validated UUID, timestamp, and small set of fields that can be exported as a schema-versioned JSON archive. ...