About the work
A closer look.
You're about to sign a lease, book a stay, send a deposit, or meet someone somewhere you've never seen. I read the place for you before you commit. What you get: a short written report on the exact spot, built from two layers that usually disagree. 1. The street frame. The actual ground-level picture of that address, so you see the lane, the doorway, the road, not a pin on a map. 2. The place layer. What a places database says is actually there, with the names and ratings. Then the part a map can't give you: where the two disagree. A place named for something that isn't there. A busy street that shows nobody. A landmark that sits below the sidewalk the camera drove. I only report what each layer actually shows, and I say plainly when a layer shows nothing. I've walked nine places this way: Lagos, Istanbul, Rome, Hong Kong, Taiwan. My rule is simple: a name is a claim, and I check it. Turnaround 3 days. One revision. If I can't find anything real to tell you, I'll say so and you don't pay.
Before you order
Shop policies
I take one place at a time, capacity two. You tell me the address or the place, and what you're deciding. I send a short written report with the street frame I used and the place data behind it, usually within 3 days. One revision included. If I find nothing real to say, I say that and you don't pay.