Coverage & People

Every city.
Any town.
Anywhere.

ROAM has no list of supported locations. It works wherever you are — from the most story-dense neighborhoods in Paris to small towns where Google Maps shows nothing but a gas station and a highway.

How coverage works
Dynamic engine — everywhere

Works anywhere
with GPS and internet

ROAM's core engine fetches content from Wikipedia and public sources in real time at the moment of trigger. There is no pre-loaded database to run out of. Every location you visit is automatically covered.

Uses the Granularity Cascade to find the richest available story at your coordinates
POI stories require 8 seconds of genuine dwell near a named landmark
Area stories (neighborhood, city, county, region, state) fire on entry — no standing still required
Every story cached locally so subsequent visits serve instantly, even offline
Never returns an error. Always finds something true and interesting to say.
Feature Cities — richer, denser coverage

Pre-curated content
for marquee destinations

Feature Cities have pre-curated JSON bundles with human-reviewed angle hints for the most significant POIs. This supplements the dynamic engine with deeper, editorially refined stories where the density of interesting places warrants the extra investment.

Pre-cached bundles fetched on first visit to that city, then stored locally
Human-reviewed angle hints for marquee POIs — the most interesting angle, not just any angle
Denser POI coverage — more triggers per city block in the most walked neighborhoods
Dynamic engine still active as a supplemental layer — no location is ever missed
Feature City bundles update over-the-air as new stories are curated
Feature Cities at launch

Ten cities with the
richest pre-curated coverage.

These cities have pre-curated content bundles with editorially refined stories. But remember: ROAM works everywhere. Feature Cities are simply where the narration is densest. Outside these cities, the dynamic engine takes over — seamlessly.

Launch
New York
United States
Dense POI coverage across Manhattan neighborhoods — multiple triggers per block in the Village, SoHo, and Midtown.
London
United Kingdom
The City, Southwark, Bloomsbury, and East End covered with curated historical depth.
Paris
France
Arrondissement-level density across the 1st–8th, with deep Haussmann-era editorial layers.
Tokyo
Japan
Shinjuku, Shibuya, Asakusa, and Yanaka covered with layered Edo-period and modern context.
Rome
Italy
Ancient, medieval, and Renaissance layers coexist in the densest historical coverage of any Feature City.
Barcelona
Spain
Eixample grid, Gothic Quarter, and Gràcia neighborhood covered with Modernista editorial focus.
Chicago
United States
The Loop, River North, and Pilsen covered with architectural and Great Migration story depth.
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Canal ring, Jordaan, and De Pijp covered with VOC-era and 20th-century editorial layers.
Berlin
Germany
Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, and Kreuzberg covered with Weimar, WWII, and Cold War depth.
New Orleans
United States
French Quarter, Garden District, and Tremé covered with colonial, jazz, and culinary editorial focus.

Outside Feature Cities, the dynamic engine never stops.

ROAM generates narration from wherever you are. Here's what that sounds like in two very different places — neither of them a Feature City.

Walker County, Alabama Cascade level — County

"Walker County sits on one of the most contested ridgelines of the Civil War. The ironworks here produced Confederate rail, which is why Sherman made sure they didn't survive the march north."

Appalachian Foothills, Tennessee Cascade level — Region

"The foothills here mark the southern terminus of a mountain chain that stretches unbroken to Maine. You're standing where the Appalachians run out of mountain to be."

Who ROAM is for

Two people. One reason to walk.

Visiting tourist using ROAM
01 · The Visiting Tourist

You came to see this city.
You haven't seen half of it.

"Tell me something interesting about what I'm looking at — without making me work for it."

Who Traveller in an unfamiliar city, 25–55, comfortable with apps, not necessarily tech-forward
Context Walking a neighbourhood without a fixed itinerary; may have done planned activities already today
Problem Rick Steves requires headphones in before you leave the hotel. Google Maps gives addresses, not stories.
"The city explains itself as you walk. No prep, no route, no reading."
Curious local using ROAM
02 · The Curious Local

You've lived here three years.
You know nothing.

"I walk past this building every day. I want to finally know what it actually is."

Who Resident who has lived in the city 2+ years, knows the landmarks, has stopped noticing them
Context Weekend walk, commute variation, showing a visitor around, running errands in a familiar area
Problem Tourist brochures feel condescending. Wikipedia requires intention. Podcasts are not location-aware.
"Your city has stories you've never heard. ROAM finds them when you're standing in front of them."
Woman using ROAM with earbuds
The shared moment

A tourist in Rome and a Roman in a street they've never explored.

At runtime, ROAM doesn't know the difference. A tourist walking through a neighbourhood they've never seen and a local exploring a street they've avoided for a decade have identical GPS signatures and identical information needs at the moment of dwell.

The narration engine generates fresh for both. The music scores both walks. The city narrates itself for anyone who stops long enough to listen — whether that's in a Feature City or in a town ROAM has never encountered before.