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What does one intentional community near you actually invite?

understand + make · 2h alone, half a day, if a visit is invited together · 6 stations · 3 sources, every one dated

For one careful visitor. The public map gains a second pair of eyes.

kosplora-route/0.1 · by Bentley Moon

What would change this route

If a community asks not to be described in public, the artifact stays private and the route still completes. A pattern of such requests would change how the map words invitations altogether, and this route with it.

The whole route, before you start

  1. 1 · orient · 25mOpen the public map and read how it was made: every entry from public sources, distances drawn at their real size, and its own admission that no second mapper has checked it.
  2. 2 · source · 30mRead one chapter on how forming communities actually succeed and fail, so the visit reads signals instead of brochures.
  3. 3 · place · 40m plus travelPick one entry within reach.
  4. 4 · counterpoint · 15mState the strongest case that your visit costs the community more than the correction is worth.
  5. 5 · make · 30mWrite the verification note in the map's own fields: what is actually invited, the boundary, the date you checked, and a source for every line.
  6. 6 · reflect · 10mNote what the public record had wrong, and whether the community should hear it before the map does.

Optional study preferences. These stay in this browser and do not change the route’s steps.

Station 1 · orient · 25m

Open the public map and read how it was made: every entry from public sources, distances drawn at their real size, and its own admission that no second mapper has checked it.

Earthen Beings: the map and its method · Earthen Beings · 2026-08

Station 2 · source · 30m

Read one chapter on how forming communities actually succeed and fail, so the visit reads signals instead of brochures.

Creating a Life Together · Diana Leafe Christian · 2003

Station 3 · place · 40m plus travel

Pick one entry within reach. Check its public sources yourself, then follow the entry's own boundary line for contact: some invite visits, some invite email, some ask for distance.

Alternative: If travel is not available, verification through the community's stated contact route is a full version of this station, and the map says so.

Station 4 · counterpoint · 15m

State the strongest case that your visit costs the community more than the correction is worth. Christian's chapters on visitor load and membership process are the source, and the entry's own boundary line is the evidence.

Creating a Life Together, on visitors and membership process · Diana Leafe Christian · 2003

Station 5 · make · 30m

Write the verification note in the map's own fields: what is actually invited, the boundary, the date you checked, and a source for every line.

Station 6 · reflect · 10m

Note what the public record had wrong, and whether the community should hear it before the map does.

What you leave with

A dated verification note in the map's entry format, sent through the map's own correction form. Nobody but its maker has checked an entry on the map yet.

The standard it is checked against

No published standard is named for this route yet. Its finished work is for you to keep and share.

When you are done