XPLpic is a map of the world built out of travellers’ photographs. Every picture sits on the spot it was taken, so you can wander into somewhere you have never been and see it through the eyes of the people who were there — and add the places you have been yourself.
The map is the whole site. Photos appear as pins where they were taken, gathered into clusters when you are zoomed out and separating as you come in. Open one to see the picture full size, whatever the photographer wrote about it, the rest of the photos from that moment, and the conversation underneath.
Pick a photo and, if the camera recorded where it was taken, it lands on the map by itself. If it did not — the location was stripped, or the picture was scanned — you drop the pin yourself, searching for the place if you would rather not hunt for it. Add a few words(or none), add more photos to the same post, and it is up.
Photos that belong to one trip can be grouped into a journey: a route drawn across the map, its stops in the order they were travelled, and a way to step from one to the next without going back to the map in between. A journey has a page of its own, so a fortnight in Iceland is one link rather than fourteen.
Everybody’s profile carries a passport — the countries their photos add up to, how much of the world that covers, and the years they were taken over. It fills itself in as you post, and it is yours to share.
Looking around needs no account at all. Posting, commenting and liking need one, and an email address and a password is all it takes to make it, or if you have Hive-Keychain you can use that instead.
There is a Discord for people planning trips, asking where a photo was taken, and swapping notes about getting there. Everyone is welcome, whether you have posted anything or not.