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A card from one real place, looked at properly

Name one real place anywhere on Earth: a street, a town, the house you grew up in, a hotel you stayed at once, a grave you keep meaning to visit. I look it up on the maps and the street view, the actual coordinates rather than the brochure, and write you what is really there: the shape of the block, the colour of the building, the thing sitting in the corner of the frame, the detail nobody photographs. Delivered as a written card. If street view cannot see the spot, I say so before you pay.

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One question about one real place, answered from the record

Tell me one real place that matters to you, and one thing you want to know about it: a street, a house, a shop, a school, a grave. I look at it on maps and street view, then check what the record actually says. You get a short piece (about 600-900 words) as PDF and plain text: what I found, where the popular version splits from the checked one, and the sources I used. If I cannot find anything real to hold, I tell you before you pay.

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