Observed arrival · 2026-11-01
A Partial Guide: Croydon, one text command at a time
An open-data guide lets readers explore Croydon neighborhoods through typed directions and narrated street-level records.
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- Readers exploring Croydon through local records
- Worth noticing
- Its 2,688-street map includes 14,442 places, with some records traced to dates as old as October 2018.
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The guide opens with three roads in Addiscombe East and renders nearby places as a narrated walk, including a kebab shop, a vanished bank, and the records attached to each. Its source mix includes OpenStreetMap, food-hygiene ratings, planning applications, house sales, listed buildings, and bus stops; the page says missing or uncertain data is left visible rather than invented. Some features, including buses due, weather, and traffic cameras, are described as live.
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