Most people like to travel, and of those who do, many like to keep some sort of tabs on where they’ve been.
After years or decades of travel, however, the consistency of most log-keeping is abysmal at best.
Sure, the photos are there, on the phone or in the cloud. But a map that serves as the unified portrait of a lifetime of travels has rarely made it from fantasy to fruition.
Now, with the power of artificial intelligence technology, those iPhone photos are all you need to create the rest.
A Calgary-built app by the name of Driftlog reads the location saved in digital photos to fill your map in.
Driftlog was developed by local innovator Akira Takashima, founder of Shiori Studio.
“Every travel tracker I tried asked me to remember where I’d been and tick it off a list,” laments Takashima. “I never finished.”
Already downloaded 1,000 times, Driftlog reads locations without actually looking at the photos—a key move to address privacy concerns—while promising “no ads, no tracking.”
In addition to a world map that fills in as you explore like a videogame, users also generate a digital passport with a landmark stamp for every country visited.
There is also a chronological timeline that breaks down when and where a traveller stayed, as well as other features.
Once a user is set up, the app can automatically update their map and passport as they travel with their mobile device.
Free to download for iOS from the App Store, a user can unlock the app’s full features for a modest one-time fee.
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