Why we’re building Wandrio
We’re a small, experienced founder team: Antti and Eevi handle technology, Risto product and operations, Olli growth, and Oiva design.
Geo-collection apps have inspired us to explore new places and spend more time outdoors. We’re building on that inspiration to make tile hunting and geo-collecting accessible to more people, not just those with a Strava account or a sports watch.
We’re starting with tiles and focusing on mobile phones, with a broader vision for collecting and exploring the world.
About this page
Our main community chat is on WhatsApp, where useful answers and suggestions can quickly get buried. This page brings together common questions, completed improvements, and open community requests.
Wandrio is evolving quickly. Some features depend on Strava and other external services, and synchronization, tiles, and maps may occasionally have issues.
Please report problems and share ideas through the app or our community channels. Any language is welcome; English helps more people follow the conversation.
Interested in contributing your skills? Send us a private message.
Completed improvements
The following community requests are marked complete:
- Direct links from activities on the map to their Wandrio activity pages.
- Distinct highlighting for newly collected tiles.
- Statistics for fully collected tiles.
- Fixed Android back navigation from the leaderboard.
- Language selection.
- Explanations for additional statistics.
- Individual activity views with achievements.
- An option to hide the latest activity highlight.
- Activity-list improvements and redesign.
Still open: highlighting newly created clusters is a separate request.
Open community requests
These ideas remain open. This list is not a release schedule or a commitment to build every suggestion. Items marked New are additional tracked requests, not necessarily newly submitted ones.
Maps and visualization
- Smaller tiles, including 1/128 and 1/256 sizes.
- Custom themes, simpler map styles, and additional map sources.
- More controls for cluster overlays, location visibility, and background grids.
- Mobile map tilt and terrain depth.
- Highlighting newly created clusters.
- Clearer regular tile grids in microtile view.
- Tile colors based on activity type.
- Achieved titles on activity maps and screenshots.
- New: Municipality-based tile highlighting for hometown collecting.
- New: Map browsing without enabling location services.
- New: Separate controls for private-activity visibility and public tile visibility.
- New: Fog-of-war map visualization and custom track colors.
Gameplay and exploration
- Special tiles at the meeting point of three regions.
- Recommendations or endorsements for notable tiles.
- Road, path, and point-of-interest collection.
- Larger tiles for country-level exploration.
- Connected tile counts.
- Clearer megatile upgrade notifications with map previews.
- Time-based decay of tile control.
- New: Showing tiles where a user has lost Mayor or Legend status.
- New: Easier discovery of new Wandrio users.
Statistics and map lenses
- Coverage statistics by country, region, and subregion.
- Lenses for horizontal and vertical lines, countries visited, and tiles reached directly from home.
- Collection indicators such as tiles per hour.
- Megacube statistics.
- New: Altitude-based progress, achievements, rankings, and height Eddington statistics.
- New: Land- and water-based discovery coverage.
Tracking and integrations
- Suunto, Polar, Apple, and Wahoo integrations.
- External sensor support, including heart-rate monitors.
- GPX upload and track navigation.
- Tile-based route planning.
- Reliable offline activity recording.
- New: Cycling speed displayed in km/h.
- New: Access to the recording map without unlocking the phone.
Leaderboards and seasons
- Additional rankings, including a global all-time leaderboard.
- A dedicated season for microbrick hunters.
- Cycling, walking/running, and overall season leaderboards (currently marked Todo).
- New: Friends filters and highlights on leaderboards – partially done