THANK YOU
This map contains almost nothing of our own. It is made, end to end, of gifts other people made first. Here are the people who made it.
The people who are the data
Every camp, every art piece, every event in here was described, placed and given away by someone else. They wrote the descriptions. They chose to be findable. Without them this is an empty grid on a dry lake.
Theme camps 1,176 placed
Who told the city where they'd be, and what they were bringing.
Artists 310 pieces · 304 artists
Who hauled it out here, built it in the dust, and let it go.
Mutant vehicle crews 492 registered
Who spend all year welding so the rest of us can catch a ride.
Everyone who posted an event 6,504 happenings
All of it free. All of it gifted. None of it obliged.
The people who make the city work
Most of them you'll never meet, and the ones you do meet you'll meet on the worst day of your week.
The people who made the data possible
Burning Man Project · Innovate team
For publishing an open API at all, and for approving the key that made a 2026 map possible instead of a 2025 souvenir. Particular thanks to Andrew Lowe, who answered within hours, twice.
The iBurn community
Who proved years ago that an offline Black Rock City map should exist, and open-sourced the proof. Everyone building in this space is standing on that.
Rock Star Librarian
Twenty-one years of hand-curating a music guide nobody pays them for — reading every lineup, checking every set, and giving it away. The most complete record of what is actually playing on this playa, made by hand.
Playa Set Library
For verifying hundreds of sets one link at a time, and for the note that says it all: “every link was found and checked, not guessed.”
OpenStreetMap, MapLibre & the open-source web
The map renderer, the fonts, the glyphs, the tooling. All given away.
Every camp on the map
Because “thanks to the camps” is easy to say and harder to mean. All 1,176 of them, by name.