Finprints: the map behind this blog

Most of the trips on this site end up as a post. A lot of places never do. I still want one map that shows both: the dives and cities I wrote about, and the ones that are only footprints.

That map is Finprints. It lives at /map. It is a separate app embedded here, not a screenshot.

What I log

Cities go on when I was actually there, not just when I flew over a country. Dive sites come from search against a public catalogue, or from my own log when I import a file. Optional dive details (depth, time, gas) stay private. Article markers on the public embed are the posts that carry a country code in the front matter.

How to read it

On the Finprints page you get the full map, a short stats line, and a list of posts grouped by country. Country names in that list open a page for that country (for example /map/mv for the Maldives). The iframe on those pages is still the full world map. It is not cropped to one border.

If you want the passport-style numbers without the map chrome, the same page has a taller “World explored” embed lower down.

Why it sits next to the blog

I got tired of keeping a private spreadsheet of where I had been. Finprints is that list, drawn properly, and it can sit inside a trip post when it helps. The writing stays first person. The map is the quiet index underneath.

Summary:
Open /map for the live Finprints log. Country pages and post markers follow the country codes on each article. The map app is separate from this Next.js site, but the embeds are meant to live here.