Data Drop London, drawn Zones 1 to 4My favourite city in the world, made like a painting so it can be read like one.
Tile numbers on. Point at a patch that looks wrong and note the number, then tell me. Press Q to turn it off.
Drag to move, scroll to zoom, click a marker to open it buildingcollectionpass through
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What is a Biopsy?

A finished Data Drop, put on the table and cut open. Every decision, every number, every mistake, and the exact words we sent the AI.

Biopsy №4 is this map. Two weeks of it: the styles we threw away, the 61 squares we had to draw twice, all 840 joins measured, and the two days in Photoshop nobody wants to talk about.

The map and everything on it is free. The Biopsy is for members.

Read Biopsy №4

Getting around

The map is rotated 104.7° and tilted 45°, the way it was rendered. The compass points north.

drag
move
wheel or pinch
zoom
double click
zoom in
/
search a building, a postcode or a place
K
every building, as a list
Q
show the square numbers
esc
clear the marker
one finger
move around
two fingers
zoom in and out
double tap
zoom in
tap a marker
open that building
the search box
find a building, a postcode or a place
183, up top
every building, as a list

What the markers mean

Open
editing — click a mosaic

tool

pattern for texture, not colour

— none captured

brush [ ] to resize

paint colour

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click a swatch to paint with it · alt-click to target it

recolour

— pick a tone (I)
↓ becomes ↓
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history ⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z

nothing yet

save

% · m across

zoom free — no reader limits set
Drawn from Google 3D imagery