Using this guide
Help
This guide has opinions about how it works — why it asks for a street rather than your location, why a place sometimes has no opening hours, what happens to the “open now” badge when your signal drops. Rather than leave you to infer them, they are written down. These pages are the manual, and they are as honest about what the guide doesn't hold as about what it does.
Getting started
Who this is for: anyone opening OCMD Explorer for the first time — most likely on a phone, quite possibly standing on the Boardwalk already. Last updated: 2026-08-30
Inside: Contents · Tell the guide where you're staying · Find something to do right now · Pin what you like to a trip · Save it for the dead zones · What you do not need · Where to go next.
User guide
Who this is for: anyone using OCMD Explorer who wants to know what the whole thing can do. Organised by what you are trying to accomplish, not by where the buttons are. Last updated: 2026-08-30
Inside: Contents · Working out what to do today · Finding a specific kind of place · Getting oriented on the island · Planning a trip · Searching · Reading the town's history · Playing · and 4 more.
Frequently asked questions
Who this is for: anyone with a specific question about how OCMD Explorer works, where its information comes from, or why it did something unexpected. Last updated: 2026-08-30
Inside: Contents · Using the guide · Where the information comes from · Trips, pins and sharing · Offline and signal · Accounts and the game · Accessibility · Money and advertising.
Troubleshooting
Who this is for: anyone where the guide is doing something that looks wrong. Last updated: 2026-08-30
Inside: Contents · Distances and home base · Missing information · Offline · Trips and sharing · Game and account · Display.
Glossary
Who this is for: anyone who has hit a word on this site and wanted to know exactly what it means here. Terms are defined as this guide uses them, which is not always how the rest of the internet uses them. Last updated: 2026-08-30
Inside: Contents · Places and geography · The guide's own words · History · The game · Trust and sourcing.
Changelog
Who this is for: readers of OCMD Explorer who want to know what has changed and when. Written for people who use the site rather than people who build it. Last updated: 2026-08-30
Inside: Contents · Late August 2026 · Mid-August 2026 · Early August 2026 · Late July 2026 · What is not here.
Not what you were after?
Answers holds the questions visitors ask about Ocean City itself — parking, the bike hours rule, what to do when it rains. The Colophon explains how the guide checks its facts and lists every source behind them. Something here wrong or out of date? We publish our corrections.