Offline city packs, recommendations, and maps

City packs bring local place data and prose into a trip so you can explore a destination without depending on a live service.

Recommended for this trip

At the top of the Offline city data panel, Voyalier matches your trip’s destination against the pack catalog and suggests the best fit — for a trip to Kyoto it offers Download Kyoto city data. The match is a local, deterministic comparison of your destination against each pack’s name, aliases, region, and Wikivoyage title (with accents and the Hawaiian ʻokina folded away, so “Kauaʻi” and “kauai” match the same pack). It runs entirely on-device: nothing about your trip is sent, and no pack is downloaded until you click.

When more than one pack could match — “Japan” fits both Kyoto and Tokyo — all of them are listed so you can choose. When nothing matches, Voyalier says so and you can still browse the full catalog below.

Browse and download

The Offline city data panel lists the available packs — Nashville, the four Hawaiian islands as separate packs, and more. Each pack keeps two layers with their own licenses: Overture places (permissive) and Wikivoyage prose (share-alike), shown with per-layer attribution.

Download for this trip pulls a pack’s contents from the project’s releases and stores them locally with the trip. The click is your consent, and the fetch is one-way — it pulls place data in; nothing about your trip goes out. The pack id is validated before any request, and the downloaded body is verified to match the pack you asked for. A Remove control deletes it again.

Persona-weighted recommendations

Once a pack with places is downloaded, the Recommendations panel ranks its places by five persona weights — food, culture, nature, nightlife, and shopping — that you set with sliders (with Balanced, Foodie, and Explorer presets). Ranking is a deterministic keyword-to-dimension rule, never a model, and every pick shows its source, license, score, and the reasons it was chosen, plus one cross-dimension “wildcard.”

The map

The map is consent-gated: nothing loads until you click Show map. It then fetches a keyless OpenFreeMap basemap (OpenStreetMap data) and plots your destination plus the downloaded pack’s recommended places. The map library is a large download, so it is fetched only on that first click — if you never open a map, you never download it.