• Browse the world and jump to interesting places. Search by name or by WGS84 decimal degrees.
• Create a route by searching from one place to another, then list sights along that route (within 2-100 km of the corridor).
• Add sights to Trip plan, then use Export to download .kml (for Google My Maps) or .csv (for spreadsheets).
• Open Packing from the side buttons to build a packing list for your trip, search items, and export to .csv or .txt.
• Measure straight-line distance, filter by categories, use advanced filters to find what you want, or change the map theme.

Those categories are usually not “sights” in the same sense, so they are not curated to be complete at the moment. Our accommodation and food & drink pins are intentionally selective. Also, places in these two categories can open, move, and close more frequently, which makes broad coverage hard to maintain without a much larger team or smart automation.

If you would like your restaurant or accommodation to be featured on the map, please reach out to us for a collaboration! Use the Contact us section in this Help panel to get in touch.

Tell us if we missed a sight most travellers would care about (museums, landmarks, beaches, nature, historic sites, and similar).

Also let us know if something is permanently closed or clearly unsuitable as a listing. We may add automated checks later; for now we rely on your reports. Use the Contact us section in this Help panel to report or get in touch.

Add a query in the form ?latitude,longitude,zoomlevel=7 to the page URL (decimal degrees, latitude first - the same order as the coordinate readout on the map). Example: ?35.6762,139.6503,zoomlevel=12.

Coordinates can differ by up to roughly 80m (87 yards). This happens for a few reasons: nearby pins may be nudged apart for visibility, or placed at a practical entrance or car park. Additionally, Mapbox tilesets can sometimes cause slight visual shifts, and regions like China use a different coordinate system that may result in noticeable offsets. If a pin is completely wrong, please send us the correct coordinates.

SightHop runs in the browser with WebGL and loads a large custom Mapbox vector dataset (on the order of tens of thousands of sights plus route lines) on top of a base map. Each time you pan or zoom, new vector map tiles are downloaded and decoded, which is why the first moments after opening often feel the heaviest.

What you see is driven by vector tiles: a wide view still loads a lot of geometry for the whole area, and zooming in usually means more point symbols on screen at once, which asks more of your device and GPU. Changing filters can refresh the data for the whole visible area so everything matches your choices.

Try a full page reload and give the first load a little time, use a faster network if you can, and prefer a desktop browser for the smoothest experience. We keep optimizing how the map loads and updates.

A lot of points can show at once, especially when many categories are active. Open Filters in the top bar: in Categories, switch off types you are not interested in so only the pins you care about stay visible.

Then open Advanced filters and pick a Country (and if you like, narrow further with Region, District, or Locality once they are available). That limits what is shown to a place you are actually planning for. In the same Filters panel you can also change Map Styles if you want a calmer basemap.

Listing every trail, reserve, and minor stop would add hundreds of thousands of pins and bury the highlights. With roughly 66,000 points, the average is over 300 sights per country - just as a rough illustration, not a hard quota. We aim for the strongest picks per country or region. The world changes; new places appear and others fade, so the set will keep evolving.

The focus is sightseeing, not every leisure activity. Many of those venues are easy to find locally if you want them, but less “discovery” value than, say, a waterfall you did not know existed. They also tend to churn faster than major landmarks. Large shopping centres are often included in bigger towns.

If a famous pedestrian street or a square you think should be on the map is missing, tell us - we may add it.

Some destinations simply offer more notable sights and richer public information. The same placement rules apply everywhere, but three areas get extra depth because they match how people use the map:

• Sweden (many users are based here)
• Thailand (very broad travel appeal)
• United States (huge variety and lots of reference material online)

You could script tens of thousands of pins quickly, but here each point is placed and reviewed by hand. That improves coordinate quality and filters out entries that should not be treated as sights - something bulk imports or unchecked automation struggle with.

While it's hard to give an exact number, it represents countless hours of work every week for several years - well over 3,000 hours dedicated to pin placement alone. The map will never truly be “finished,” as our listings constantly evolve with the changing world.

Back in the early 2010s, it started simply as a map to track visited countries versus dream destinations. But after a few trips made it clear how easy it is to miss great stops along the way, we started adding specific categories and individual sights. Once we realized the map was useful for more than just one traveler, it grew into the public site you see today.

1. In SightHop Add the sights you want to your trip (open Trip plan, build your list). When you are ready, open the Export menu in that sheet and choose Download KML to save a .kml file to your device.

2. In Google My Maps Sign in at Google My Maps, click Create a new map, then import your KML as a new layer. After that you can set colours and icons per stop. If you later want richer, more advanced maps at a lower ongoing cost than My Maps usually allows, Mapbox is often the better fit, but it expects a more technical setup.

We intend the map and its features to stay free to use, with no paywall planned. Ads may appear later to help cover hosting and maintenance.

Our focus is to grow the audience in Sweden and abroad, keep existing data updated, and continuously add new markers. We are also developing more travel planning tools and actively seeking collaborations. Ideas are always welcome!