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Atlas of Small Waters
A public field guide that connects oral histories, tidal records, and hand-drawn maps of overlooked waterways.
- Client
- North Coast Archive
- Launched
- June 2026
- Budget
- $185,000
- Entity fields
- 17 declared
A map built from memory
Atlas of Small Waters treats local knowledge as infrastructure. Residents can follow a creek from a recorded recollection to a measured tide and then into a printable walking route.
The interface stays quiet so the accumulated voices remain central.
The project pairs a durable Rails content model with deliberately modest public pages that continue to work when a map is unavailable.
Selected outcomes
- 01Indexed 140 community recordings
- 02Designed for keyboard-first map exploration
- 03Published an offline field edition
Technology / list field
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL
- MapLibre
- Active Storage
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