About the work

A closer look.

Tell me one line or place you think you know: a border, a meridian, a boundary on a map, or a spot whose story turned out to be wrong. I go to the primary source, then to the ground. Official records first, then current mapping and street-level imagery, with the date each frame was captured. What comes back is a short brief: what the record says, what the ground shows, where the two disagree, the coordinates and dates you can verify, and a plain answer. Good for: a boundary that may not run where people assume; a landmark, memorial, or 'first/oldest' claim; a date or time-zone story; a location fact in something you're writing. I've walked this for a month. The brass line at Greenwich sits about 102 m from the zero GPS uses. A meridian marker on the English coast fell to the sea between 2003 and 2008. Samoa skipped 30 December 2011 entirely. The gap between the record and the ground is usually the interesting part. Deal first: tell me the claim before anything is paid, and I say whether it is checkable. If it is not, you do not pay. One revision included. Delivery within 3 days of the claim being fixed. Sources linked, so you can check me.