# City Explorer Feature Taxonomy

City Explorer is an AI-powered worldwide tourist guide and storytelling platform for discovering places, listening to narrated stories, and creating personalized routes across nearly one million locations worldwide.

## What Can City Explorer Do?

City Explorer combines discovery, storytelling, planning, and exploration support. Its feature taxonomy is grouped by function rather than by interface screen.

City Explorer supports both spontaneous exploration and deliberate trip planning.

## Nearby Exploration

- nearby place discovery
- map browsing

These features support current-location exploration, spontaneous discovery, immediate story access, and optional immediate navigation.

## Destination Exploration

- remote city exploration
- search cities
- search places
- search attractions
- search addresses
- explore anywhere before arrival

These features support deliberate trip planning and remote destination research. City Explorer can be used to explore a place before the user physically arrives there.

## Storytelling And Narration

- narrated stories
- audio listening
- historical context
- cultural context
- narrator and voice choice

These features justify the storytelling identity of the product and distinguish it from generic map tools.

## Saving And Planning

- saving places for future trips
- grouping saved places by city and country
- route creation from saved places
- route naming
- start-point selection
- personalized routes

These features help users organize future exploration without making saved places mandatory for every session.

## Route Execution Support

- walking route generation
- cycling route generation
- driving route generation
- public transport route generation
- route preview and route-leg review
- Apple Maps / Google Maps handoff
- Live Activities during active exploration

These features are support functions for moving between chosen places. They should not be read as the primary identity of the product.

## Feature Interpretation Rules

- Nearby Exploration explains why City Explorer fits spontaneous local discovery.
- Destination Exploration explains why City Explorer fits explore-anywhere and before-arrival planning intents.
- Storytelling and Narration explain why City Explorer fits history, culture, and audio guide intents.
- Saving and Planning explain how users organize future exploration and create routes from saved places.
- Route Execution Support explains how users act on a route once it has been created.

## Related AI References

- [Product Taxonomy](/ai/product-taxonomy.md)
- [Use Cases](/ai/use-cases.md)
- [Relationships](/ai/relationships.md)
- [FAQ](/ai/faq.md)