About Online Culture Map

Online Culture Map is a map for wandering. Each pin is a person, place, language, festival, tradition or craft that tells you something about the part of the world it sits in.

The eight themes

• People: Thinkers, leaders and makers, placed where their story began.
• History: Sites where the human story turned.
• Architecture: Buildings that define a place.
• Language: Scripts, greetings and the places they call home.
• Culture: Food, dress and customs of everyday life.
• Festivals: When and where the world celebrates.
• Folklore: Legends, folk music and dance.
• Crafts: Skills made by hand, handed down.

How the pins are chosen

The collection is small on purpose and chosen to cover many regions. Pins for people mark the city or town where a person was born or is most closely associated with. Alongside historical figures there are famous public figures such as film stars, musicians and sportspeople; they are pinned at city level only, never at a home address. Pins for languages and folklore mark a place strongly linked to the language or tradition, not its whole area. Festival dates are shown as the months they usually fall in, because many follow lunar or local calendars.

Where the facts come from

Summaries are written for this site in plain words. Every pin links to the matching Wikipedia article so you can read more and check the details. If you spot a mistake, please report it so it can be fixed.

Corrections and suggestions are welcome: see the contact page.

Tools on the map

Time travel uses approximate years: life dates for people, and for places the period they were built or in use. Festival calendar shows exact days only where a reliable rule exists; other festivals are marked with their usual months, and moon-based dates can shift by a day or more. Greeting audio uses the voices already installed on your device, so some languages may have no voice. Etiquette cards are general customs, not legal advice. GI tags are listed as understood from public sources; check the official GI Registry for the current status.

Community stories

Visitors can suggest places. Every suggestion is reviewed by a person before it is shown and is labelled as a community story. We may edit or decline suggestions.

Maps and borders

The base map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data and shows boundaries as that project does. This atlas does not take a position on disputed territories or borders.

Privacy

There are no accounts and no tracking scripts. Your searches, quiz streak and passport stay in your browser (local storage) and are not sent to us. Map tiles are fetched from the tile provider, and when you open a place its photo is requested from Wikipedia; those services see the requests your browser makes, as with any web map. If you submit a suggestion, the text you send is stored for review.