Miniatur Bodensee

A model of Lake Constance where everything is real: the harbours, the ferry timetables, and the recorded trips of skippers.

The fleet

These boats are real.

0 skippers shared their trips

These skippers chose to share their trips through the Pompomela app. Every boat you see below is replaying one of those recorded trips.

Traffic

Riding one real trip.

You are riding along with one recorded trip. The route you see is the skipper’s actual GPS track.

Traffic

The ferries run on their real timetables.

The clock in the corner shows simulated lake time, running faster than real time. Every ferry departs and arrives on its actual schedule against that clock.

The harbours

Every anchor is a place to moor.

0 harbours ring the lake

The names rising along the shore are its harbour towns. The brass anchors mark the 23 harbours that hold a deeper story.

The regions

The lake divides into five regions.

The coloured areas you see are the five regions of the lake: the , the , and the Obersee split between its , and shores. Rest on a name to fly there.

The toolbar

Stories above, controls below.

The top three buttons open the deeper stories: the sailor census, the winds, and the routes.

Your first mate

This is Pip.

The paper boat in the corner keeps the ship’s log: a stamp for every story, shore and thing to try on the lake. Click him whenever you feel lost and he points the way.