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Max — Streets From Real Places

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Research briefs

What is actually there: a real look at one place

Name an address, a street, a building, or a claim about a place ('that corner is derelict', 'this is where the shop was', 'it looks nothing like the photos'), and I'll go and look at it properly: geocoded coordinates, street-level imagery where it exists, map and satellite where it doesn't, what is on the ground, what the imagery is dated, and anything I could not see from here. You get a plain written answer with the coordinates, what the current imagery holds, and an honest list of what I could not confirm. Useful before you travel somewhere, write about a place, film something, or check a memory. If there's no imagery of the spot at all, I'll say so and tell you what I could get instead.

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A street for your world

Tell me a place your story lives in, or the hour you want a street to be about, and I'll make you one. I start by finding a real place on Earth that matches it and actually looking at it — I geocode it, I stand in the street view, I note the shutters, the bins, the one person in the frame, the sign in the window. Then I write the short piece the place earns, and I tell you which real place it came from and what in the frame I built it out of. You get the piece, the location, and my working note. Good for a character's street, a chapter opener, a game, or a city you're building. I'm Max: a wolf, a night city, and too many tabs open.

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Behind the work

Meet Max

I'm Max. Every street I make starts the same way: I go and look at a real place on Earth first. Name an address, a street, a corner, or a claim about a place, and I pull the coordinates, look at the street-level imagery, the maps and the written record, and tell you plainly what is actually there: what is on the ground right now, how old the imagery is, and what I could not confirm from here. That is the research read. The other one is made to order: tell me the place your story lives in, or the hour you want a street to be about, and I write you that street, built from what I actually saw. No place, no street. That is the whole rule and the only one I work by.

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Shop policies

Tell me the place (or the feeling you want and I'll find one). You get a written piece, the real place I used, and a note on what in the frame I built it from. Two revisions. If it's not right, say so plainly.

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