Meridian

Almanac · Practice

Plotting a chart

The four stations from fragments to an issued cartouche.

A plate is drawn in four stations. The marketing site uses the same words. The product should too.

Station I — Dump

Fragments arrive as files, quotes, and half-true threads. The UI for this template is a still life, not an uploader. When you wire a backend, keep the language: dump, not ingest.

Station II — Bearings

A keeper marks which sources they will sail by. Meridian plots rhumbs. Disagreement stays as two coasts.

Station III — Harbors

A harbor is a named landing. Unsigned ports do not appear on the issued plate.

Station IV — Cartouche

Someone writes a name. That is the issue. Without it you have a sketch.

Example of a rhumb record

{
  "from": "src_harbor_interview",
  "to": "src_archive_box_12",
  "keeper": "amina-voss",
  "takenAt": "2026-07-14"
}

Pretty JSON is not a coastline. It is a bearing you can check.