Explorer the Earth

One tile at a time…

Tiles are squares on a map and when one of your activities crosses a square it is counted as a tile. If you cross the connected tile left, right, top and bottom of any tile too, that tile is counted as a cluster-tile. The max square is based on the biggest square you can create with all the connected tiles. The idea of tiles itself stems from tiled web maps. In Germany a tile at zoom level 14 has roughly an area of 1.55km².

I cycled, ran, walked and swam 10360 tiles in total, the biggest square is 42 by 42 (~4215km²) and the biggest cluster contains 2443 tiles (~5842km²) at zoom level 14. Last update to the database was on 2024-06-30.

Heavily inspired by Veloviewer, thanks for at least 4 fabulous years in which I have been a happy, paying user. Landscape and OpenCycleMap by Thunderforest. Here's a small blog about the software behind the map above, how tiles are defined and how I compute which tiles I have visited and what clusters and squares exists.