Voyage Maps, App

  • Communities

About the Communities

  • Forming
  • Ecological
  • Nomadic

Founding year

  • 2025

What we do

Voyage Maps is a worldschooling app intentionally designed with families at the center of every decision. It exists to support those who choose to educate through experience, curiosity, and connection rather than confinement. The platform connects like-minded traveling families from around the world and provides a trusted space where learning, community, and mobility come together in a meaningful and practical way.
At launch, Voyage Maps is built with a focused set of core features that prioritize ease of use, clarity, and real-world value. This initial simplicity is intentional. Rather than building in isolation, the platform is designed to evolve alongside its users. As families, hubs, and hosts join, Voyage Maps will continuously gather feedback through surveys and direct engagement to understand which tools, filters, and features are most valuable. Every stage of growth is guided by the community itself, ensuring the platform remains relevant, inclusive, and responsive.
Voyage Maps brings together worldschool hubs across six continents and at sea, offering families access to a diverse range of environments and cultures. These hubs may include established learning communities, temporary meetups, shared living spaces, cruise-based gatherings, or informal local connections. We actively welcome anyone who offers rentable space, opportunities for shared community meals—even if only once a week—and, most importantly, skill sharing. Skill sharing is the heart of the Voyage Maps vision: parents, hosts, and community members contributing knowledge, trades, languages, arts, and lived experience to support collective learning.
The platform is designed to help families discover places and people aligned with their values, interests, and learning goals. Beyond locations, Voyage Maps emphasizes connection—enabling families to communicate with hubs and with one another, ask questions, share insights, and build relationships before arriving and long after moving on. This continuity transforms travel from a series of short-term stays into a cohesive, ongoing educational journey.
The broader vision behind Voyage Maps is to centralize and strengthen the global worldschooling ecosystem. Today, families often spend countless hours searching across fragmented platforms, social media groups, and word-of-mouth networks to find communities that meet their needs. Voyage Maps seeks to simplify that process by creating a single, intuitive platform where trusted information, communication, and discovery coexist.
Worldschoolers travel not merely to visit new places, but to experience life fully and intentionally. Learning happens through presence, cultural immersion, collaboration, and shared responsibility. Voyage Maps is built to support this way of life by lowering barriers to access, fostering meaningful connections, and honoring diverse educational paths.
Ultimately, Voyage Maps is more than a technology platform. It is a living, evolving global network shaped by the families and communities it serves. Its vision is to empower worldschooling families to move through the world with confidence, curiosity, and connection—knowing that wherever they go, learning and community are within reach.

Our Mission

Voyage Maps’ mission is to create a transparent, community-driven platform that connects worldschooling families, hubs, and hosts across the globe. We exist to simplify access to trusted information, meaningful connections, and shared learning opportunities by centralizing the worldschooling ecosystem in one inclusive space. Through openness, clear communication, and user-guided growth, Voyage Maps empowers families to learn through lived experience, cultural immersion, and skill sharing—ensuring that every group, hub, and interaction is built on clarity, trust, and mutual respect.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Community type
  • Cohousing
  • Coliving
  • Ecovillage
  • Activities
  • Property management
  • Farming
  • Education
  • Experiences
  • Networking
  • Services Business
  • Others

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2025
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2023
  • Started living together

Video

  • 257 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
2028

How to join

Membership is free, users can access 100+ worldschool communities without ever paying into it. You can stay as long as there is room and you abide by each village or hub’s rules.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Download Voyage Maps and connect with the community. You can chat individually or via village group chat. You can contact each village, or hub directly to book a visit.

Primary decision-making authority

  • Single Leader or Founding Couple

One person or partnership has ultimate authority.

Decision-making process

  • Majority Vote

More than 50% agreement needed.

Governance structure

  • Representative/Democratic

Members elect leaders who make decisions within defined roles.

Conflict resolution approach

I’m Sarah May, founder of Voyage Maps. I will send out monthly surveys to add or remove features on the app depending on users needs alone.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • There is a labor obligation
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Labor: Encouraged or suggested
Members with pre-existing debt: allowed
These are a little hard to gage because some villages 100% would love you to help and work for them in exchange for housing, others would be very against it. I would suggest contacting each individual worldschool village.

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Common House, Garden(s), Greenhouse(s), Vehicle Share, Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Swimming pond or pool, Hot tub or hot springs, Outdoor Kitchen, Large Scale Kitchen, Tractor & Farm Equipment, Stage or Auditorium, Fire pit, Swingsets & play areas, Recreational vehicles, Waterfront access, Gym or sports area, Internet

Frequency of communal meals

  • About once a week

Significant food acquisition practices

  • Locally sourced

Community activities and engagement

  • Transition Town (post-petroleum and off-grid communities.)
  • School, Educational Institute or Experience
  • Volunteer, Internship, or Apprenticeship, or WWOOF’ing
  • Neighborhood, Community Housing, or Homeowner's Association
  • Ethical Business, Investment Group, or Alternative Currency
  • Organization, Resource, or Network
  • WWOOF'ing, Guest Farming
  • Festivals, Conferences, Events

Substance use culture

  • Substance use appears in public spaces but no pressure
  • Religions
  • Baha'i Faith
  • Christian
  • Buddhist
  • Jewish
  • Muslim
  • Hindu
  • Quaker
  • Sufi
  • Hare Krishna
  • Native
  • Wiccan, Paganism, or Earth Religions
  • Unitarian Universalist

Gender composition

  • Majority cis (over 60%)

Age demographics

  • Family-focused (many children and parents)

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Location

  • Oregon, United States

Needs and Offers

Offer
  • Real Estate For Sale
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