MVP 3.0.1
Lichfield Cathedral
A LIVING INTERPRETATION OF A FAMILIAR CITY

Lichfield has more than one story happening at once.

Read its hidden history, the city changing now, or the green spaces threaded around it. Facts and locations stay fixed. The experience adapts around them.

52.6855° N · 1.8303° WLichfield · Staffordshire
THREE WAYS TO READ ONE CITY

Choose the Lichfield you want to notice.

ONE PLATFORM · DELIBERATE BOUNDARIES

Live enough to feel current. Constrained enough to stay trustworthy.

MVP 3.0 adds open mapping and live Lichfield weather without making either a source of historical truth. New places only ship with fixed geography, evidence provenance and a rights-clear visual treatment.

01

Evidence first

Historical and contemporary claims belong to named sources. Uncertainty and project status remain visible.

02

Open map

MapLibre/OpenFreeMap is enhanced by a second no-library OpenStreetMap raster renderer before the local schematic is ever needed.

03

Weather as context

Open-Meteo adds current outdoor context. It never claims a path is dry, safe or accessible.

04

Visual honesty

Modern Lichfield uses rights-cleared contextual photography where available, dated on-screen, with local editorial illustration only where documentary reuse rights are not established.

CREATE A READING OF THE CITY
Hidden History

What kind of Lichfield do you want today?

TIME AVAILABLE

How long have you got?

4 places
Stop 1 of 4
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WHY THIS PLACE?

VERIFIED Evidence-bound story
TIME LENS

Move this place through time.

visual interpretation
ASK THIS PLACE

Follow your curiosity.

Grounded

Questions are constrained to the evidence attached to this place. Workers AI is optional; failure falls back locally rather than improvising.

THE THREAD CONTINUES

THE UNSEEN MAP

Real places. Open mapping. No invented geography.

The app first attempts MapLibre + OpenFreeMap, then falls back to a local OpenStreetMap raster renderer with the same verified pins. The line is a sequence cue, not turn-by-turn navigation.

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UNDER THE SURFACE

Intelligence downstream of reality.

MVP 3.0 adds live and open data, but neither gets permission to rewrite the evidence.

01Verified placeFixed coordinates and named source records
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02Evidence corpusHistory, current status, ecology and qualifications
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03Open contextMap + live Lichfield weather, both failure-safe
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04InterpretationSelection, storytelling and grounded Q&A
AI + LIVE DATA MAY

Enrich

Explain, connect, contextualise weather and help people see relationships between verified places.

THEY MAY NOT

Rewrite reality

Move a landmark, turn a proposal into a completed place, invent path conditions or fabricate local history.

YOUR LICHFIELD, READ BACK

You noticed a different layer of the city.

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EVIDENCE LAYER

Sources

Interpretation can change. Provenance cannot.
SELECTION LOGIC

Why this place appears now.
LIVE LICHFIELD

Weather is context, not a route guarantee.
UNSEEN LICHFIELD · MVP 3.0.1

A living city experience with deliberate boundaries.

Three curated collections share the same evidence model. Open mapping and weather make the experience feel current without becoming sources of historical or accessibility claims.

FACTSNamed primary, civic, national-heritage and local ecology sources.
PLACEFixed coordinates. The model is never asked where a place is.
MAPMapLibre + OpenFreeMap when available; a locally implemented OpenStreetMap raster renderer is the real-map fallback; the schematic is last resort only.
WEATHEROpen-Meteo current conditions. Failure hides gracefully; path conditions are never inferred.
AICloudflare Workers AI can answer from each stop’s corpus. A deterministic local fallback remains available.
IMAGESHistory uses open-licence photography. Lichfield Now uses rights-cleared contextual photography where available and labels its date; otherwise it uses a clearly identified editorial illustration. No unlicensed photograph is bundled.