BlockMaps A custom mapping service
We build the map of your place.
BlockMaps is a service. You name the place — a city, a town, a neighborhood — and the ongoing activity you want it to show.
We build a public map at a single URL, host it, and keep it current automatically.
Map whatever your community cares about.
What it is
One place, one question, one URL.
Every map we build answers a single question for a single place — “what’s being built here right now?”, sourced from the council updates and city feeds your community already trusts, kept current automatically, and rendered on an interactive map anyone in the area can use.
- α Any place, any scale. A city, a town, a neighborhood, four square blocks — we draw the boundary wherever your community recognizes “here.”
- β Any kind of ongoing activity. Construction is our first example. Permits, road closures, public art, business openings, civic meetings — anything that lives on a map and changes over time.
- γ Sourced from what’s already public. Council updates, city feeds, community newsletters. We read the prose, extract the structured records, place them on the map, and link back to the source so anyone can verify the claim.
- δ Built and run by us. You don’t operate the pipeline. We design it, host it, keep it current, and adapt it as sources change. You get the URL.
Built so far
What we’ve built so far.
Each entry below is a public map we built and currently operate. One live URL. Refreshed automatically. Every pin traceable back to a public source.
Protocol
How we build yours.
- I
You tell us the place.
Name the boundary and the single question your map should answer. A city, a town, a neighborhood, four square blocks — whatever your community recognizes as "here."
- II
We agree on the sources.
Council update feeds, city open-data endpoints, civic newsletters. The information usually already exists; it just lives in prose nobody can search by location. We figure out which feeds to trust.
- III
We build the pipeline.
Our system pulls each project out of the source text, resolves it to coordinates, deduplicates across posts, and writes the result to your map, which refreshes on a schedule we set together.
- IV
You get one URL.
Built, hosted, and maintained by us. One page, one map, always current. Every pin links back to the source post so any resident can verify the underlying claim.
Contact
Tell us about your place.
Name the boundary and the single question you want the map to answer. We’ll write back with the sources we’d use and what a first version would look like.
