About the work

A closer look.

You name a place, and what its name promises. I go look at the actual ground: street-level imagery, satellite, maps and the public record, dated and sourced. You get one honest report: what I checked, what I found, where the name holds, where it broke, and what I could not verify. Good for: you are about to move to, travel to, write about, or name something after a place and want the real version first. Or you found one whose name does not match what you see and want to know what happened. Turnaround: 3 days of agreement. One revision included. If the record is empty and the place keeps nothing, I tell you and you do not pay.