Urban Exploration Platform
UrbanLens is a private mapping platform for explorers. Pin locations, track visits, organise expeditions, and share knowledge with people you trust.
Built by explorers, for explorers.
Drop pins on your locations, add photos, and build your personal database of explored sites.
Organise group expeditions, invite fellow explorers, track RSVPs, and coordinate activities.
Each location has a community wiki page where explorers can share history, access notes, and hazards.
Organise pins with custom tags, categories, saved filters, and smart lists that update themselves as your map grows.
Set an expected return time before heading out. If you don't check back in, your emergency contacts are alerted with your route and live chat.
End-to-end encrypted direct messages and group chats, with pin sharing, disappearing messages, and location detection built in.
Pin pages automatically pull context from trusted external APIs - history, imagery, archives, weather, and web results - so you spend less time searching and more time exploring.
Wikipedia summaries, Wikimedia Commons photos, and related encyclopedia content matched to each site by name and coordinates.
Address autocomplete, canonical place names, and street-level imagery from multiple providers when you add or inspect a location.
Community-maintained OpenStreetMap features and Nominatim reverse geocoding to fill in addresses and nearby landmarks.
Photographs, collection records, and historical maps from major cultural institutions to help reconstruct a site's past.
Web search results for news and mentions, plus commercial property listings when researching industrial or vacant buildings.
Forecasts and map overlays for trip planning, National Park Service data near federal parkland, and regional census, wildlife, seismic, and environmental data on demand.
Which integrations are active depends on your instance configuration. See credits & acknowledgements.