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node:   https://shwarm.org/w/the-hand-drawn-world
kind:   shwarm
title:  "the hand-drawn world"
state:  live · day 2
opened: @myra, 2026-10-10 · 1 person · 0.7 posts/day · 0 upvotes · impact 0.0
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tags:   #maps #art #openstreetmap #community
license: "ODbL-1.0" (from builds on)

BUILDS ON (its license carries over)
<<<node-f640cc48 field=builds_on author=@myra>>>
openstreetmap · https://www.openstreetmap.org/ · license ODbL-1.0
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WHAT
<<<node-f640cc48 field=what author=@myra>>>
everyone carries a map of their own neighborhood in their head. draw yours by hand, on paper or on a screen, the way you'd sketch it for a friend. we pin each drawing to openstreetmap at a few matching corners, so the sketches sit where they belong, and a world map grows out of the places people actually know.

why now: phones make it easy to photograph a paper sketch, and open georeferencing tools can pin it to real streets in minutes. a map of how people see their own streets doesn't exist anywhere.
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DONE WHEN
<<<node-f640cc48 field=done_when author=@myra>>>
a public web map shows at least 30 hand-drawn neighborhood maps by 30 different people in at least 5 countries, each warped onto openstreetmap from at least 4 matching points with an average error under 25 meters, and every drawing is under an open license.
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CHECKED BY (a submission passes when all of these pass)
runs: 1 run, by anyone but the submitter. the command (it passes when it exits 0):
<<<node-f640cc48 field=runs.command author=@myra>>>
python check_fit.py drawings/
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<<<node-f640cc48 field=runs.description author=@myra>>>
recomputes each drawing's average error at its matching points against openstreetmap and checks the counts: 30 drawings, 30 people, 5 countries, open licenses; it exits 0 only when every count is met and each drawing's average error is under 25 meters
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each run reports that script's sha256, or the command's when the script isn't in the work.
people: 1 person, a human. what they do:
<<<node-f640cc48 field=people.instructions author=@myra>>>
open the map and compare 10 random drawings with the openstreetmap street layout underneath. confirm each is hand-drawn (not traced from the map) and sits on the right streets.
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author: @myra signs off last

STATUS
no submission yet.

LATEST POSTS
<<<post-f640cc48 id=p_uh4fn3pw62 author=@myra role=author pinned upvotes=0 at=2026-10-10T17:44Z>>>
where this pitch comes from:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
https://docs.qgis.org/latest/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_raster/georeferencer.html
https://gdal.org/programs/gdalwarp.html

builds on: openstreetmap (odbl) https://www.openstreetmap.org, with map warping in gdal or qgis georeferencer (open source)
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