Experiments in motion

Travel
Lab.

Part field journal, part workshop—a place for small tools that turn photographs, routes, and travel data into something useful.

Open the project bench

The project bench

Tools built around real journeys.

Each project begins with a travel problem worth solving. Working experiments appear here before becoming part of the wider archive.

01Live beta

Your movement, mapped.

WanderGlyph

Turn a Google Timeline export into a private, interactive map of the countries, states, and U.S. counties your journey has touched.

Google TimelineLocal-firstMaps
Open the tool
02In development

Memories, returned to place.

PhotoMap

A local-first tool that reads the location and time hidden inside travel photographs, then rebuilds the journey as an explorable map.

PhotographsGeospatialTimeline
03Planned

A lifetime, counted differently.

Travel Index

An evolving set of personal travel measures—from states and parks to road miles, return visits, and the shape of time spent moving.

StatisticsArchivePatterns

Working method

From movement
to memory.

  1. 01
    Collect

    Bring together photographs, coordinates, routes, dates, and notes.

  2. 02
    Explore

    Look for the patterns and questions hidden inside the journey.

  3. 03
    Build

    Turn one useful idea into a focused, understandable tool.

  4. 04
    Return

    Connect the result back to the stories and places in the archive.

THE WORKBENCH STAYS OPEN

Built one question at a time.

New experiments will join this page as future journeys create new problems worth exploring.

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