I have spent months travelling around Europe in a camper, swimming in cold lakes, and trying to answer a deceptively hard question: which lake is actually worth stopping at? OhMyLake turns that obsession into a useful European lake atlas.
One atlas, three layers
The site joins three kinds of information that are usually scattered across different places:
- A broad, reproducible open-data catalogue of 109,541 lakes.
- Useful local context, including nearby places and source evidence.
- A smaller editorial layer of featured lakes, first-hand reviews, and my own photographs.
It runs as a WordPress-native application with a custom theme, plugin, and deterministic import pipeline. WordPress keeps the public guide, structured lake records, human corrections, comments, and future community contributions in one system.
Find your way to the water
Start with the interactive atlas, browse the featured shortlist, or see the lakes I have reviewed personally. The Sources page explains where the catalogue comes from and what each source can—and cannot—tell you.
The personal origin story is in RVing around the Alps and Preparing for fun.