How this works

Every fact carries a date and a count. Not the place: the fact. "Outlets: plenty, confirmed 3 days ago by 4 people" is a different claim from "outlets: plenty", and the difference is the only thing that matters when you are deciding whether to walk twenty minutes.

Facts get old on their own. Each one has a half-life chosen for how fast that kind of thing changes: a laptop policy halves in 60 days, the number of power sockets in a year. Nobody has to report it wrong for it to fade. When it has faded past half, it is marked as needing a re-check and it stops being presented as current.

Nothing unchecked is dressed up. Most of this map was imported from OpenStreetMap and is labelled "unconfirmed" until a person standing there says otherwise. Unconfirmed facts are visible, and they are also left out of the machine-readable markup on purpose, because markup is an assertion.

One vote per person per fact, changeable, not repeatable. A place cannot be talked up by whoever taps hardest, and disagreement is shown rather than hidden: two claims about the same thing sit next to each other until one wins on confirmations.

A tap is worth what your taps have been worth. Everybody starts at a full vote, because the first person to check a place is doing the hardest thing in the product. After that your weight moves with whether the rest of the crowd went the same way you did: slowly, only counting votes somebody else has since judged, and never below half a vote or above two. Being early is not being wrong, so a vote nobody has touched yet counts neither for nor against you.

And a person reads the odd cases. Accounts that only ever vote on one place, that mostly confirm their own facts, or that fire forty votes in an hour are put in front of a moderator. None of it is automatic, because every one of those patterns is also what an honest regular or a long afternoon of walking looks like, and a contributor quietened by mistake does not come back. Nothing is ever deleted: a retracted fact keeps its votes, a suspended account keeps its history.

There are no ratings, and there never will be. Stars measure how somebody felt on a day you cannot see. This measures whether a specific thing was true recently enough to rely on.

You can check us. Everything is published through an open API with the dates attached, so nothing here rests on our word about our own data.

The honest answer first: because the map you use decays unless somebody walks. This is not a database anybody can finish. Every fact here is heading towards being wrong, and the only thing that stops it is a person in the room. That is the deal, and pretending otherwise is how the previous attempts at this died with maps full of cafes that closed in 2019.

It costs one tap and it is never a form. Confirming that a fact is still true is a single button, and skipping is a single button. Answering six questions about a place you are sitting in takes under a minute, and telling us nothing is always allowed: a guess is worse than a blank.

Your own places stay fresh because you keep them fresh. Save the places you go back to and they become your list, private to you. The re-verification questions prefer them, because you are the person most likely to know.

The one fact nobody else in the world has. In 2026 cafes are writing rules like "no laptops 11:30 to 13:30, none at weekends" on a chalkboard by the till. No dataset carries that, no review can express it, and Google has no field for it. When you state one here it becomes the only structured, dated record of it that exists.