About Mapped by Stubbs
NOT A TOOL.
YOUR COMPANION.
Stubbs is a pigeon with a flat cap and a monocle — and your personal digital city guide for every city in the world.
What is Mapped by Stubbs?
Mapped by Stubbs is a digital city guide — a web app that creates a personal walking tour for any city in the world in seconds. No booking, no group, no fixed departure time.
The app combines three technologies: mainly open place data (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikimedia Commons), supplemented depending on the current setup by the Google Places API, for points of interest, Claude by Anthropic for AI curation of the best spots, and pedestrian routing based on OpenStreetMap (Geoapify) for the optimized walking route. The result is a hand-picked, personal route — tailored to your starting point, interests, and available time.
Mapped by Stubbs belongs to the category digital city guide: self-guided city exploration, curated with AI. The app positions itself between Google Maps (shows everything, curates nothing) and classic guided tours (editorially limited, tied to a schedule). The core promise: for travelers who want to see the best of a city without spending hours researching it. It's free to use and requires no registration. Since July 2026, the navigation can also read spot descriptions aloud; curated example walking tours are available for Bamberg (12 highlights, 3.2 kilometers, 1.5 to 2 hours of walking time), Munich, and Hamburg.
How does Mapped by Stubbs work?
Three steps — from zero to your personal walking tour:
Who is Mapped by Stubbs made for?
Stubbs isn't a tool for everyone. He was built for two groups who share one thing in common: traveling on their own terms, seeing the best of a city, and having no time for hours of research.
Shared mindset: "I want to be spontaneous without seeming unprepared — and see the best of a city without spending days reading up on it."
What Mapped by Stubbs is not
Drawing boundaries is part of being honest. For Stubbs to do one thing right, he deliberately doesn't do others.
| Feature | Mapped by Stubbs | Booking marketplace (GetYourGuide etc.) |
|---|---|---|
| Booking required | No | Yes |
| Group tour | No | Yes |
| Fixed departure time | No | Yes |
| Commission-based recommendations | No | Often |
| Any city, on demand | Yes | Limited |
| Ready in seconds, no booking | Yes | No |
Who's behind Mapped by Stubbs?
Mapped by Stubbs is an independent product — built on the belief that the best city experiences don't come from a travel agency, but from a curious mind that knows where to look.
Stubbs (the pigeon) is the voice. The technology behind him: Claude by Anthropic for AI curation, mainly OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikipedia, Wikivoyage and Wikimedia Commons, supplemented depending on the current setup by the Google Places API, for place data, Geoapify for pedestrian routing based on OpenStreetMap, and Supabase for saved tours.
Questions, feedback, or a city Stubbs should get to know? Write to us.
Where does the data come from?
Maps and footpaths are based on OpenStreetMap data — © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Depending on the current setup, sights and break spots (café, restaurant, bar) come from OpenStreetMap — enriched with Wikidata and Wikipedia, supplemented by Geoapify abroad — or from Google Places.
If the places come from OpenStreetMap, we download an extract from Geofabrik every week for Germany, Austria and Switzerland and keep the places that suit tours and breaks; elsewhere the place data comes via Geoapify, also from OpenStreetMap. Where a place comes from open data, the ⓘ on its spot card names the sources — for example Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) for descriptions Claude writes from the article, Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0) for short texts, Wikidata (CC0) for links between places and Wikimedia Commons for photos with photographer and licence. If a place has no photo there, one may come from Google.
How we build the extract — filter rules, kept attributes, tiles — is described in a text file: view the method (German and English).
