Data-driven wall art
Lake bathymetry, summit elevations, airport layouts, race-circuit geometry, climb gradients - redrawn as something worth hanging. No stock imagery. No AI filler.
The range is currently unavailable to order. Explore each line's sources and current stage below.
Why it looks like that
Not "inspired by" a survey - taken from one. State geological services, national mapping agencies, published ephemerides, OpenStreetMap. The authority is set on the face of the print.
Geometry goes in and a print comes out through a renderer that has no imagination. Nothing is smoothed to look better, and no shape is invented to fill a gap in the data.
When the data will not verify, the print does not get made. Three race circuits and an entire state's worth of lakes are held back right now for exactly that reason.
2027 edition preview
Every day of 2027 as a moon glyph, in twelve month blocks. Full moon names, supermoons and lunar eclipses marked; all instants in UTC.
Phase instants are computed rather than copied: exact times of every new, first-quarter, full and last-quarter moon, per-day illumination evaluated at 12:00 UTC, and a supermoon flag where the Earth-Moon distance at the full-moon instant falls under 360,000 km. Every full-moon and eclipse date was checked against the USNO and NASA tables before the file was allowed to render.
In the works
These six lines are at different stages of preparation. None is currently available to order; each must complete its source and print checks before it can be offered.
A lake drawn as what it actually is underwater - nested depth contours, surveyed, with the maximum depth and the coordinates set in the margin.
DatasetMI / MN DNR bathymetric depth contours + USGS NHD shoreline
A circuit reduced to the one thing that matters: the closed ring of the track, intended to be traced from surveyed geometry rather than redrawn by eye.
DatasetOpenStreetMap aeroway-grade circuit ring geometry
A working map of distillery names and coordinates, prepared for a verified regional print when its source records are current.
DatasetDistillery geocodes, four whisky regions
A peak-bagging checklist you tick off, ordered properly - by prominence-ranked elevation, with the full list rather than a rounded-off selection.
DatasetColorado 14ers, prominence-ranked
A famous climb as its own elevation profile - one bar per kilometre, shaded by gradient, with the numbers that make the suffering legible.
DatasetCycling climb elevation profiles
An airport stripped to its geometry - runways and taxiways in the layout a pilot actually reads, with nothing decorative added.
DatasetOpenStreetMap aeroway runway & taxiway geometry
Provenance
A print that cannot prove where it came from is just a picture of a lake. The working rule
Apex Lines binds every circuit to an exact OpenStreetMap relation ID and a Wikidata QID before it renders. Monaco's current relation will not assemble into a closed main-course ring.
There is cached geometry from an earlier snapshot that would have drawn a perfectly convincing Monaco. The renderer is built so it cannot reach for it. Monaco is refused, and the three-circuit sets that would have included it stay held.
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