Building an open-source map for travel information that never makes it online

While travelling, I kept running into useful information that simply didn’t exist online: small homestays, mechanics, water points, road conditions, campsites, etc. Most of it gets passed from one traveler or local to another and disappears afterward. So, I built Lamyig , a free and open-source community travel guide. A few decisions I made: No bookings, commissions or paid listings. No money made using the core product. Community members can add and update places. Map-first instead of another list of “top places”. Built as a PWA so it can work more like a lightweight travel tool than a traditional website. The long-term idea is that useful information stays available for the next traveler instead of disappearing in WhatsApp groups and conversations. The hardest problem isn’t actually building the software. It’s bootstrapping trustworthy community data . I’m currently thinking about things like: How do you motivate travelers to contribute after their trip? How do you keep old information accurate without creating a huge moderation workload? How do you prevent businesses from turning community maps into free advertising? What should happen when someone reports a place as fake, closed, unsafe, duplicated, commercial spam, or inaccurate? Should reports trigger removal, community review, reputation-weighted voting, or just warnings? Should certain villages, trails, ecosystems, religious places, water sources, or campsites intentionally remain difficult to discover? If Lamyig successfully exposes hidden places, could it accidentally destroy the exact places it is trying to help preserve? this list of problem statements goes on and on Would love to hear how other people here would approach those problems. And if you’re building something around a problem you genuinely care about, drop a comment or DM me. I’d be happy to chat, exchange ideas, or connect you with someone else working on something similar. Screenshot attached. Happy to share the GitHub/project link in the comments if anyone wants to look at the implementation or contribute.