# Urban Passport

> Urban Passport is a mobile city-exploration game made in Hamburg, Germany. Players collect City Clues before a trip, answer on-site questions, and stamp real places via GPS geofence verification (18–75 metres, depending on the spot) into a persistent digital passport. First city: Hamburg, with 40+ verified curated spots across 11 themed categories (street art, city history, food & coffee, nature, architecture, and more), growing weekly.

## Key facts
- A stamp is only earned on location — GPS geofence verified within the spot's radius (18–75 metres), not just tapped.
- Content is organized as city > category > spots, each spot with a question, story, and look-for hint.
- Group sessions exist for school trips, company outings, stag and hen dos, language trips and hostels (6 to 100 participants depending on group size, one phone per team is enough, join via six-digit code); everything earned goes into the player's personal passport.
- Studying a city from home is free; the Hamburg city pack unlocks all spots.
- Launch city: Hamburg (DE), including an Alster tour and a street-art collection.

## What Urban Passport is NOT
- Not a DIY scavenger-hunt builder (unlike Actionbound): all content is curated and fact-checked by the makers, not user-created.
- Not an audio guide or narrated city-tour app: it is a game loop — study, travel, answer on site, stamp.
- Not a check-in app: stamps cannot be earned remotely or by tapping; the phone must be physically at the place.

## For teachers & classes
- A city rally fits a 90-minute outing or a half-day program, needs only smartphones — no guide, no printed material.
- The teacher sees each team's progress live during the session.
- Class-trip games for schools, live today; German info page: https://urban-passport.com/de/klassenfahrt-hamburg/

## Numbers
- 40+ verified curated spots in Hamburg, growing weekly
- 11 categories
- 18–75 metre GPS geofence radius per stamp, depending on the spot
- 6 to 100 participants per group session, depending on group size (one phone per team is enough)
- 4 verified street-art walls in the Hamburg street-art collection (more added as they're checked on site)
- Architecture timeline reaching back to 1188

## Main pages
- [Home](https://urban-passport.com/): What Urban Passport is and how the collect-travel-stamp loop works.
- [About](https://urban-passport.com/about/): Canonical definition — what Urban Passport is and is not.
- [How it works](https://urban-passport.com/how-it-works/): The full game loop explained.
- [Hamburg](https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/): Hamburg city hub with all categories (German).
- [Street Art Hamburg](https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/street-art/): Murals and street-art spots in Hamburg.
- [City History Hamburg](https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/city-history/): Historic spots and stories.
- [Groups & Classes](https://urban-passport.com/classes/): Sessions for school classes and groups (English).
- [Klassenfahrt Hamburg](https://urban-passport.com/de/klassenfahrt-hamburg/): City rally for school trips in Hamburg (German).
- [Schnitzeljagd Berlin](https://urban-passport.com/de/schnitzeljagd-berlin/): Build-your-own scavenger hunt for Berlin — no curated Berlin spots yet, groups build their own route via the host portal (German).
- [School Trips Hamburg](https://urban-passport.com/school-trips-hamburg/): Field-trip city rally for school classes in Hamburg — teacher builds the route, class plays in teams (English; German: /de/klassenfahrt-hamburg/).
- [Scavenger Hunt Hamburg](https://urban-passport.com/scavenger-hunt-hamburg/): Scavenger hunt in Hamburg with curated spots, teams and live scores (English; German: /de/schnitzeljagd-hamburg/).
- [Scavenger Hunt Berlin](https://urban-passport.com/scavenger-hunt-berlin/): Build-your-own scavenger hunt for Berlin — no curated Berlin spots yet, groups build their own route via the host portal (English).
- [Group Games](https://urban-passport.com/group-games/): City scavenger hunt for large groups — up to 100 participants in one game, one phone per team (English; German: /de/gruppenspiel/).
- [Scavenger Hunt London](https://urban-passport.com/scavenger-hunt-london/): Build-your-own scavenger hunt for London — no curated London spots yet, groups build their own route via the host portal (English).
- [Support](https://urban-passport.com/support): Contact and help.

## Blog (German)
- [Blog overview](https://urban-passport.com/de/blog/): Researched articles about Hamburg places and school-trip planning; every fact cited with sources (Wikipedia, Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, Hamburg monument register).
- [Hamburg mit Kindern](https://urban-passport.com/de/blog/hamburg-mit-kindern/): 12 kid-friendly Hamburg places pulled from our curated tours — swans, Miniatur Wunderland, Elbphilharmonie Plaza, Isemarkt, Fischauktionshalle — each with age tip and cost.
- [Hamburg Geheimtipps](https://urban-passport.com/de/blog/hamburg-geheimtipps/): 7 lesser-known Hamburg places with verifiable history — Hygieia fountain, Isemarkt, Alsterperle, Fischauktionshalle, Museum der Arbeit, Energiebunker Wilhelmsburg, Café Gnosa.
- [Klassenfahrt Hamburg: Programm-Ideen](https://urban-passport.com/de/blog/klassenfahrt-hamburg-ideen/): Program building blocks for school trips (Speicherstadt, Miniatur Wunderland, Elbphilharmonie Plaza, St. Pauli by day, Planten un Blomen) plus the app-based city rally format.

## Hamburg in English
- [Hamburg hub (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/): All 11 Hamburg collections in English, with the game loop and pricing.
- [Street & Public Art — Hamburg (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/street-art/): English category page; German version at https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/street-art/
- [Food & Coffee — Hamburg (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/food-coffee/): English category page; German version at https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/food-coffee/
- [Music History (Beatles, Star-Club) — Hamburg (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/music-history/): English category page; German version at https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/music-history/
- [Markets (Isemarkt) — Hamburg (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/markets/): English category page; German version at https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/markets/
- [Architecture (Chilehaus, Speicherstadt) — Hamburg (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/architecture/): English category page; German version at https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/architecture/
- [Places to Be — Hamburg (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/places-to-be/): English category page; German version at https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/places-to-be/
- [City History — Hamburg (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/city-history/): English category page; German version at https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/city-history/
- [Dark History — Hamburg (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/dark-history/): English category page; German version at https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/dark-history/
- [Parks & Nature — Hamburg (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/nature/): English category page; German version at https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/nature/
- [Pop Culture (Reeperbahn, Beatles-Platz) — Hamburg (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/pop-culture/): English category page; German version at https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/pop-culture/
- [Sport — Hamburg (EN)](https://urban-passport.com/en/hamburg/sport/): English category page; German version at https://urban-passport.com/de/staedte/hamburg/sport/

## Contact
- Website: https://urban-passport.com
- Email: support@urban-passport.com