Is there anyone else like me who enjoys opening map apps to explore places they’ve never been?
I often use Google Maps to explore places I want to visit or have already been to. The app is incredibly user-friendly, but it feels too rigid. Its outdoor maps aren’t as natural as Mapbox, while its urban maps are overly commercialized. What I want is a simple, minimalist base map—a beautifully designed outdoor map with pleasing colors. That’s why I’ve tried to combine them.
To keep the map as streamlined as possible, I opted not to use Cesium or QGIS.
The overall structure is very simple, offering three types of maps (OpenStreetMap, Mapbox Satellite, and Google Photorealistic Tiles) while sharing a single context with R3F. I plan to integrate LLM to enable some interactive modifications.
A wikinearby feature has now been added.