Before you drop your first pin — a short, human agreement, not legal fine print.
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People first. Treat everyone here — neighbours, strangers, people you'll never meet — with the respect you'd want walking down their street.
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Take people as they come. Every body, every age, every income, every way of speaking and moving through the world. You are not required to like everyone. You are required to let them exist here.
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We come with bodies. People get tired, hungry, sore, cold, and need a toilet. Asking for those things on this map is normal, and answering someone who does is the whole point of it.
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Most of health is invisible. Someone's pace, appetite, mood, or cancelled plan may be their gut, their pain, their medication, or a night without sleep. Nobody owes you the details. Believe the ones you are given.
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Nobody picked their upbringing. What counts as polite, close enough to stand, on time, or good food was taught to you before you could argue. Different is not wrong, and unfamiliar is not rude.
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You have not lived their life. The person you are about to judge got here by a road you cannot see. Ask before you conclude.
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Bring the strange thing. A fruit tree, a fallen branch, a warning, a poem, a repair, a business, a memory — this map takes all of them. No one's idea is too small or too odd to pin.
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This map is a real place. What you pin touches real streets, real homes, real lives. Keep it true, keep it kind, and try to leave every place — human and living — lighter than you found it.
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Privacy is not optional. Share your own life freely. Don't share anyone else's without asking.
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No exploitation. No harassment, hate, spam, or deception — of people, or of the places they call home.