Worldpedia
Your own copy of
the whole world, offline.
Worldpedia is a desktop map you actually own. Pan and zoom real map data, download any country to use with no internet at all, pin the places that matter to you, and draw routes and areas on top — free, with no account required.
Windows, macOS, and Linux. No sign-up to use it. Full detail currently covers the Indian subcontinent, with the rest of the world at lower detail.
Everything you need, nothing you don't
Worldpedia stays out of your way — a fast map, your data, stored locally on your machine.
Real map data
Pan and zoom vector map data covering the whole world, with full detail over the Indian subcontinent today and more regions expanding over time.
Fully offline regions
Download any country to disk and keep using it with zero internet connection — no re-download, no expiry.
Pin your places
Drop a pin for anything worth tracking — an infrastructure project, a job site, a landmark — with its own custom icon, name, and category. It's not just a marker, it's a running record of what's happening where.
Draw routes & areas
Sketch roads, pipelines, build routes, or project boundaries straight onto the map. The same tools that mark a hiking trail can just as easily track an infrastructure rollout end to end.
Export & import
Take your pins and drawings out as GeoJSON, or bring existing GeoJSON data back in — your data isn't locked in.
Free, no account needed
Everything above works out of the box, offline, with nothing to sign up for and nothing sent anywhere.
Where it's headed
Worldpedia is early. Here's the honest state of things, roughly in order.
The free desktop app
- Offline world map with region downloads
- Pins, categories, and custom icons
- Line & area drawing tools
- GeoJSON export / import
- Export a picked area as an image
Polish & quality of life
- Per-category visibility toggles for pins and drawings
- Quicker jump-to-category navigation
- Finer control over what an export includes
- Smaller bugs and rendering edge cases as they're found
Share your work
- Put your project map in front of a larger audience
- Share by username, or make it fully public
- Anyone can browse public maps with a free account
- Your pins & drawings sync to the cloud to make it possible
- Core offline app stays free either way
Get Worldpedia
Version 0.1.0 — free, no account required. Pick the file that matches your system.
| Platform | File | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | .msi installer | 22.9 MB | Download |
| Windows | .exe installer | 16.5 MB | Download |
| macOS (Apple Silicon) | .dmg | 21.4 MB | Download |
| Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) | .deb | 24.3 MB | Download |
| Linux (Fedora/openSUSE) | .rpm | 24.3 MB | Download |
| Linux (any distro) | .AppImage | 92.9 MB | Download |
macOS build is Apple Silicon (M-series) only for now — Intel Mac support is planned. Older versions and full release notes: GitHub Releases.
Good to know
Is Worldpedia really free?
Yes. The desktop app — offline maps, pins, drawing, export/import — is free with no account required. A paid Pro tier for optional cloud sync and sharing is planned for later, but it won't take anything away from the free app.
Does it work without internet?
Once you've downloaded a country's map data, yes — full offline use of that region, no connection needed. Browsing areas you haven't downloaded, and the region-download step itself, needs a connection.
What areas does it currently cover?
The current version has full map detail over the Indian subcontinent, with lower detail for the rest of the world. Coverage is expanding — this page will be updated as more regions get full detail.
Where is my data stored?
Locally on your machine, in a small local database — nothing is uploaded anywhere by default. Export to GeoJSON any time to back it up or move it elsewhere.
How do updates work?
The app will check for and install new versions automatically once updates are wired up. Until then, grab the latest build from this page.
What's the Pro plan going to include?
Getting your work in front of more people — share a project map with specific people by username, or publish it for anyone with a free account to browse. Track an infra rollout, a set of build routes, anything you've mapped, and let others follow along instead of it sitting on your machine alone. Still being designed — the free app comes first.