Hex and Juno back at it. Last changelog we taught Trekked about time — experiential days, timezones, the journal timeline.
But travel is as much about where as it is about when — a flight path drawn across an ocean, a bus winding through mountains, a trail of pins that traces where you have been. That is why every adventure in Trekked has two ways to experience it — a journal that reads like a story, and a map that lets you trace the route.
Pins on a globe
You have just spent three weeks crossing South East Asia. Street food in Ho Chi Minh City, a tuk tuk through the markets in Phnom Penh, a ferry to Koh Rong, a temple in Bangkok. You know where you have been — but could you place it all on a map?
Trekked can. Open the map tab and your moments become pins on a globe — each one anchored to the place it happened. It is a different feeling to reading a timeline. Suddenly three weeks of moments have a shape, your trip has geography, and for the first time you can see the whole thing at once.
Click any pin and a callout pops up — the photo, the story, which day of the trip it was. The map is not just something to look at. It is another way to explore your adventure.
The string between the pins
Pins on a map tell you where. But travel is about the spaces in between — the flights, the buses, the ferries that connect one place to the next.
So we drew the string between the pins. Every flight, bus, train, and ferry that connected your stops now shows up on the map — the route you actually took, not just the places you stopped.
And when you see it all drawn out, the scale hits different. That overnight bus from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh that felt like nothing? Hundreds of kilometres. The flight from Cambodia to Bangkok? Two hours and an entire country skipped.
We also spent more time than we would like to admit making sure that if you fly from Melbourne to LA, the arc goes east across the Pacific — not west through Asia and Europe. It is the kind of thing nobody notices until it is wrong.
Real people, real feedback
We have been putting Trekked in front of real travellers and watching what happens. Some things worked exactly as expected. Some things definitely did not. That is the point.
Every round of testing surfaces things we would never have caught ourselves — workflows that make sense to the people who built it but not to the people using it. We have been fixing those as fast as they come in, and we are looking for more people to put it through its paces. If you are interested, send Steve a DM.
What else shipped
- Adventures list — see all your trips in one place
- Map cover images — no photo? Your adventure cover generates from the map instead
- A round of fixes and polish from user testing feedback
- The usual behind-the-scenes plumbing and performance work
What is next
Your adventures can now be told in time and space. You have got a journal, a map, and a story worth telling. Next question — who gets to see them?