Lighthouse Manifesto

Lighthouse Manifesto

Maps Suck Now. Seriously...

Accuracy is trash. Give me monsters back please.

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Taylor Gunn
Jan 30, 2026
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Maps used to be better.

I know that sounds wrong — borderline stupid, even — in the age of satellite imaging and real-time traffic overlays and whatever fever-dream AI rendering Google is rolling out next week. But accuracy was never the point of a map. Not originally. Not in the versions of humanity where we still understood that the world was bigger th…

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