TRANSMISSION NO. 002 · 49° 16′ N, 123° 07′ W
THE CITY IS
SENDING SIGNALS.
Studios making worlds. Engineers making improbable things work. Communities creating the next scene. A public, source-linked atlas of creative work in Vancouver.
Not LinkedIn with mountains. The mountains are innocent.
* Observed listings are not guaranteed still open. Always follow the source.
Every frequency is on. Search only if you want to narrow the signal.
01 / THE FIELD
Vancouver, finally on the map.
A proper zoomable street map, with real place names and source-aware markers. No API key, no fake office addresses.
The source-linked directories below still work. You can also open Vancouver in OpenStreetMap ↗.
Street map: OpenFreeMap / OpenStreetMap. Wheel scroll stays on the page; use + / − to zoom. Mint counts are municipal research clusters, not shared office buildings. Open in OpenStreetMap ↗
02 / CIVIC WEATHER SYSTEM · EXPERIMENTAL
Tomorrow isn't a press release.
Follow decisions, plans, reporting and public resources without pretending that trending headlines predict the future. The evidence is the instrument; the scenarios are questions.
What's been decided? What's scheduled? What might change if a published plan actually happens?
NEWS DESK / PUBLIC HEADLINES
Government releases and independent newsroom links are labelled separately. Counts in these feeds describe media coverage, not civic importance.
WHO TO ASK / PUBLIC CHANNELS
Official offices and newsrooms, not a database of people's private contacts. We don't send anything on your behalf.
Primary evidence: Vancouver Council records ↗, City Open Data ↗, and linked independent publisher sources. All future outcomes are conditional, not probability forecasts.
02 / CREATIVE ECONOMY
Job leads, not job-board theatre.
A small, curated starting set. Each role keeps its sighting date and original listing. A watched company is not automatically hiring.
Tuning the career receiver…
03 / SOURCE-CHECKED RESEARCH
99 doors. Not 99 job offers.
Adapted from Martin Montero's BC AI Compass ↗. Source-checked as of the dates shown, not continuously re-verified.
Looking for the source of the source…
Dataset: BC AI Compass by Martin Montero, CC BY 4.0. Export dated August 20, 2026. This is independent work; no partnership or endorsement implied. Map coordinates in this dataset are mostly municipal centroids.
04 / HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIPS
Follow the weird little threads.
A constellation adapted from The Observatory's archived public records. Connection verbs describe historical source data, not guaranteed current partnerships.
These positions are conceptual. Absolutely no one is headquartered in the constellation.
Following the documented wires…
05 / THE SCENE
Community echoes.
Seven historical BC + AI and Futureproof programme records. This is an archive, not a current event calendar. Please do not arrive at a venue based on a fossil.
Retrieving archived transmissions…
Historical data: The Observatory, CC BY 4.0. Vancouver AI meetup archive ↗
06 / FIELD OBSERVATIONS
Unsolicited transmissions.
Research notes with sources, not a prophecy engine.
Receiving dispatches…