How we research
How a destination gets researched.
Every guide and map on Varedelo comes from the same three things: the live web, travel creators' YouTube videos, and live place data. This is what happens to each, and what every page tells you about its own sources.
It starts with a real map
A destination guide is not written ahead of time. It is published from a real Destination Map someone built for that city: the standard first build, with every category, the default settings and no filters.
So guides exist for the cities people have actually asked for, and the list grows one city at a time.
The web, read at build time
The research runs as separate areas at once: what to eat and where, museums, architecture, the outdoors, local experiences, photo spots, shopping, when to go, getting around, local tips and what is new right now.
Each area is an AI research agent that searches the live web through Google Search while the map builds, so it reads what is being written about the place now, not a list compiled months ago.
Travel creators, on YouTube
Varedelo also reads travel creators' YouTube videos. A video map works from the video itself: every place the creator mentions is pulled out, matched to a real location and credited to the creator, with a link back to the video.
In the app, places that several creators filmed independently rank higher, and each pin shows that count. Destination guides link the video maps made in the same city, so you can see who filmed there.
Checked against live place data
Every place is matched to its live place record before it goes on a map. The address, opening hours and coordinates come from that record, not from the article or video that mentioned it.
Price tiers come from the place record too, not from a menu, so read them as a range.
Sources, named on every page
Every destination guide carries a research receipt: when the city was researched, how many research areas completed, and links to the sites the research checked.
Every video map names the creator and links the original video.
Which spots you can see for free
A guide shows five spots in full: the places the research led with first, then the list in its own order. Every other spot is on the map as a pin without its name, and opens when you unlock the city in Varedelo. The planning sections, when to go, getting around, things to know and the FAQ, are free on every guide.
A video map names two of its spots. The two are picked by a fixed rule, so the page, the app and every visit show the same two. The rest are pins until you unlock the destination they are in.
When a guide updates
A guide is rebuilt from the newest standard build for its city. When someone researches the city again, the new research replaces the page. Its Updated date is the last time the page's content actually changed, not every time it is rebuilt.
A page only asks search engines to index it once it has enough places and enough sources behind it. Thinner pages stay readable, marked noindex.
See it on a real page: open any destination guide and scroll to its research receipt, or read the FAQ.
