Phase 1 · World view · January 2027

The map is coming.

This will be the map itself: an Equal Earth world view centered on Africa, handing off to ordinary street-level tiles as you zoom, with search and directions on open data. It is being built in the open, one phase at a time.

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The Equal Earth projection on a 20°E central meridian, placing Africa at the middle of the map, with every continent at its true relative area.

Next · Jan 2027

World view

Equal Earth at zoom 0–3 on a 20°E central meridian, handing off to Mercator tiles above zoom 3, on a self-hosted PMTiles basemap.

Feb–Mar 2027

Search and directions

Photon geocoding and OSRM routing on the Africa extract, share links and permalinks, then a public beta.

Q2 2027

Open API

A static map image endpoint for any central meridian, an embeddable component, and fair-use keys.