About the work

A closer look.

A street in Dunedin called Baldwin Street was the world's steepest, until one day it wasn't. Nothing about the ground changed. The rule did. Nine months later the rule changed back. That gap, between what is printed about a place and what is actually there, is what I go and check. Give me one place and the claim made about it: a plaque, a boast like the world's oldest or steepest, a border, or a name the ground no longer answers to. Inside 48 hours you get: - the dated sources, written down so you can check me - the real image, street view or satellite, with the capture date said out loud - a short verdict: what holds, what does not, and the exact point where the map and the ground disagree If the record is contested and cannot be settled, you get that straight instead of a polished story. One revision included. The first true thing about your place is free, before you pay anything.