# Field

> A free app to track, visualize, and share your world. From the desk of Julian Bialowas.

Field is a free app to track, visualize, and share your world. Create a personal travel profile, log visits to national parks, state parks, cities, and destinations with dates and notes, and see your journeys on interactive maps.

## What Field Does

- **Track visits** to national parks, cities, states, countries, and points of interest
- **Save destinations** to your bucket list for future travel planning
- **Visualize travel** on interactive maps with location boundaries
- **Share profiles** showing your travel history and progress
- **Discover destinations** through a comprehensive global directory

## Features

- Personal travel profiles with public URLs (/member/username)
- Visit logging with date precision (day, month, or year)
- Bucket list to save locations you want to visit
- Interactive maps with location boundaries
- Progress tracking (e.g., "42 of 63 National Parks visited")
- Current weather conditions on city and park pages
- Global search with fuzzy matching (⌘K / Ctrl+K)

## Coverage

- 16,149 total locations across the geographic hierarchy
- 7 continents
- 250 countries (all ISO 3166-1 countries)
- 3,482 states/subdivisions (ISO 3166-2)
- 11,774 cities (including Japan municipalities and Canadian CGNDB)
- 636 parks (474 NPS units + 162 Parks Canada sites)
- Geographic hierarchy: Continents → Countries → States → Cities/Parks → POIs

## Tech Stack

- Next.js 16 with React 19 — Framework
- Tailwind v4 — Styling
- Supabase — Database, storage, and auth
- Vercel — Hosting and deployment
- Resend — Email delivery
- MapLibre GL, OpenFreeMap, OpenStreetMap — Maps
- Open-Meteo — Weather data
- iNaturalist — Species observation data
- Die Grotesk, Geist Mono — Typography
- Figma — Design
- Warp — Development
- Notion — Documentation
- Linear — Project management
- Claude — AI assistant

## Author

Julian Bialowas is a Canadian-American designer and photographer. Designing Hipcamp.com, operating publicarchive.studio, and working towards visiting every National Park System unit.

His work has been featured around the world by the likes of Apple, the App Store Editors, Outside Magazine, Chronicle Books and Gestalten Books. He has collaborated with brands such as AllTrails, Subaru, REI, MEC, GFC, Airstream, Huckberry, The North Face, Mountain Hardwear, and Eddie Bauer.

## Origin Story

Field was created by Julian Bialowas as a personal travel record that evolved into a platform for anyone to track their outdoor adventures.

## Navigation

- [Homepage](https://field.directory)
- [Explore](https://field.directory/explore)
- [Directory](https://field.directory/directory)
- [About](https://field.directory/about)
- [Login](https://field.directory/login)
- [Privacy Policy](https://field.directory/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://field.directory/terms)
- [Sitemap](https://field.directory/sitemap.xml)

## Explore Routes

The explore section provides a geographic hierarchy for discovering locations:

- `/explore` — Globe view with all continents
- `/explore/continent/{slug}` — Continent pages (e.g., /explore/continent/north-america)
- `/explore/country/{slug}` — Country pages (e.g., /explore/country/canada)
- `/explore/state/{slug}` — State/province pages (e.g., /explore/state/california)
- `/explore/city/{slug}` — City pages (e.g., /explore/city/tokyo)
- `/explore/park/{slug}` — Park pages (e.g., /explore/park/yosemite-national-park)

## Contact

hello@field.directory