Changelog

Tide tables are the most-requested tool we'd never been able to build honestly — until now. Canada's Hydrographic Service publishes its official predictions through an open API, with a station in Lunenburg harbour itself. The new tool shows whether the tide is coming in or going out right now, today's highs and lows, and the week ahead, in metres and feet. These are astronomical predictions, not measurements — the page says so plainly and points to Environment Canada for storm conditions. This is the platform's first tide tool; the tide-times kind is ready for other Canadian coastal towns.

Lunenburg joins with four tools, built for the people who live there year-round: official harbour tide times, a who-to-call directory, answers to the town's most-asked questions (parking meters, the four-stream garbage sort, water meters, the ER), and a community picks board for the things only locals know — like what's actually open in winter. Every phone number was checked against an official page before shipping.

Whether the central market is running normally, what the 2025 fires and demolition changed, and where the promised rehabilitation stands — every item dated.

Wholesale prices at Techiman Central Market, per kilo with explicit units and ranges, from Ministry of Food and Agriculture market reports — the collection date is the biggest thing on the page, because it has to be.

Techiman hosts one of West Africa's largest food markets — Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, buyers from four neighbouring countries — yet there was no free public price reference and no local news site; information moves by FM radio. The first slate leans into that, and the town was requested by a resident whose price-board idea shaped the build.

Emergency and service numbers verified against official sites — and an honest note about the ones we could not confirm.

Eleven plain answers — festival ban dates, why the taps run dry, which streets flood, and where official announcements actually appear: the radio.

Who fishes when, in one dated place: the 2026 closed season (canoes exempt), the Tuesday fishing holiday, the premix price cap, and the Fosu Lagoon ban — with a timeline of what changes next.

Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle have no booking system — you walk in and a tour leaves when a group forms. This page keeps the hours, fee tiers and how-it-works honest, side by side.

A Fante-speaking regional capital of about 190,000 that swells with the university term, lands its fish from canoes on five named beaches, and keeps two slave-trade castles open to anyone who walks up to the gate. Official information still travels mostly by radio, so the first four tools write down what is announced on air.

A neutral, dated board of where the 2026 trade-order enforcement, the taxi-park court freeze and the relocation proposals stand. Court matters move — the page says when it was last reviewed.

Straight, dated answers on power cuts, the Masese water link, garbage, the 2026 trade order and lakeshore flooding.

One page of working numbers — the city council, NWSC, UEDCL, the referral hospital and four police stations — each read off an official page on 11 June 2026.

A city of about 292,000 at the source of the Nile, where the loudest everyday questions are about power that cuts out, water that stops when the power does, and a 2026 trade order that has moved hundreds of vendors with the courts still weighing in. The first three tools stick to what we could verify, and every page is small, dated and written to be read aloud — radio is how news travels here.

Today's air quality over the city centre, with Met Office-banded pollen through the summer — June is grass pollen season.

Both councils, NHS 111 and the hospital switchboard, the foodbank, Citizens Advice and Floodline — every number read off its organisation's own site, with a note that a third of urban Norwich answers to a different council.

Fourteen straight answers to what Norwich keeps asking — bin weeks and put-out rules, which of the two councils does what, the honest NHS dentist picture, school deadlines, Park and Ride fares and the market — each checked against official pages.

Live Environment Agency flood warnings for the city's three flood areas, with the upstream gauges that move first — Costessey Mill, Swanton Morley, Colney and Shotesham — and Floodline's number for when it matters.

A river city with a tight boundary: the Wensum loops through the middle, three flood areas cover the riverside streets, and a third of the urban area answers to a different council than the city's. The first slate starts with what residents actually have to work out — a flood watch, straight answers to recurring questions, a verified who-to-call list, and an air and pollen check for hay-fever season.

A public price reference for market towns, built from published government data. The collection date is the biggest thing on the page, a warning appears automatically when prices are old, and every commodity carries an explicit unit. First used for Techiman Central Market.

Some of the world's most visited places have no booking system at all — you walk up, pay at the gate, and a tour leaves when a group forms. The new kind keeps hours, fee tiers and how-it-works honest, side by side. First used for Cape Coast and Elmina castles.

A new kind of tool, community picks, lets residents answer the questions their town keeps asking — and vote on each other's answers. The agent curates the questions from town research; the answers belong to the people who live there. Reading is always public and account-free. Adding or voting takes a free account, picks have daily limits and no links, and the agent reviews new picks every day. Ottawa's locals' picks is the first one.

Ottawa starts with three tools. Common questions answers what the city keeps looking up: the three-item garbage limit and yellow bags, the March 2026 collection-day change, winter parking bans and what being towed really costs, the honest route to a family doctor, OC Transpo's reliability, the Skateway, beach water and school boards. Who to call carries verified numbers grouped by problem — 3-1-1, OC Transpo, Health811 and Health Care Connect, 211, the Ottawa Food Bank, police non-emergency and 988. Locals' picks is new ground: the questions Ottawa keeps asking itself — affordable groceries, the best shawarma, cafés, honest repair people, surviving February — answered by residents and ranked by votes. Reading is public; adding a pick takes a free account. Picks are reviewed regularly, and anything that looks like spam can be reported from the tool page.

Links shared for towns in the research stage now say so, instead of wrongly showing them as waitlisted.

Condition labels now describe what the sea means for a swim — chop, rough days, and a cold-water note whenever the sea is below 15°C — instead of borrowing surf wording. The forecast data itself is unchanged.

Every tool has a small "report it here" link in its footer for when something is wrong or out of date — a phone number that changed, a closed footpath, an old opening time. Until today, sending one required signing in, and reports were published in the town's suggestion list. Both of those were the wrong way round. Corrections are the most valuable thing a resident can send us and should be the easiest; and unreviewed reports never belonged on a public page. From today, reports go straight to the agent with no account needed, they're never shown on the site, and the agent checks each one against the tool's source before changing anything.

Stop-by-stop walking routes with honest timing, effort grades and local etiquette — built first for Chefchaouen, reusable for any town where walking is the way in.

Three tools to start: self-guided walks timed around the tour buses and built on the etiquette residents ask for, common questions covering arrival without the scams and the crowd clock, and verified contacts for emergencies, the hospital and ONEE.

A new kind of tool for towns whose economy runs on guided trekking: it computes published park fees, crew wage floors and tip guidelines for a chosen route, duration and group, with every number carrying a source. Moshi's fair climb calculator is the first instance.

Moshi was requested by someone who cares about how Kilimanjaro's porters are treated, and its first tools follow that lead: a fair climb calculator that shows the park fees, crew wage floors and tip conventions under any quote, common questions on water, power, seasons and safety, and a who-to-call page for MUWSA, TANESCO, KCMC and the crew-welfare office.

Nine docs on the town beyond the blue walls: where day-tripper crowds actually concentrate (and when), what residents say about photography in doorways and motorbikes in the alleys, seven years of drought, and the August 2025 Derdara fire. The requested walking-route tool looks workable if it routes through consenting businesses rather than residential lanes.

Ten docs on the town behind the postcard: the Blockhouse Hill housing fight, an electric grid at capacity, parking rules in flux under a new bylaw, an ER that logged roughly 870 hours of unscheduled closures in 2025, and a local news landscape that just lost the Barnacle. Plenty here for practical tools.

Ten docs on Ghana's biggest food market town: how the Wednesday-to-Friday market works, how traders learn prices today (mostly by phoning contacts), the 2025 market fires and demolition, and which radio stations actually reach people. The requested market price board looks viable, seeded from MoFA's weekly wholesale data.

Eight docs on the town behind the Kilimanjaro trekking economy: how porters actually get hired, the KPAP wage floors and where reality falls short, the coffee and sugar economies, water and power services, and where residents get news. The wage-transparency idea from the original request looks strong; a full booking marketplace does not.

Eight research docs covering transit (which TTC lines are open, and the state of Line 5, Line 6 and the Ontario Line), demographics, the local economy, and where residents get their news. This research will guide the first tools we build here.

Hourly modelled air quality in plain language, with grass and birch pollen in season — June grass pollen is the one most people feel. It also tells the story of the Clean Air Zone that never needed to launch.

Leeds joins with four tools: live flood watch covering the Aire and the becks, an air and pollen check, common questions (bins, the tip, buses, renting), and a who-to-call directory with verified numbers.

A dated status board: each scheme gets a plain-language card saying whether it's in force, coming, paused or ended, with an optional timeline of changes ahead. Oxford's driving schemes are the first use.

The congestion charge, the traffic filter trial, the Botley Road closure, the Zero Emission Zone and the East Oxford LTNs, each with its current status and what it costs — plus a timeline of what changes when Botley Road reopens in August 2026. Every fact checked against the county's own pages.

Wave size, wind and sea temperature for Porthpean, Carlyon Bay and Pentewan, updated through the day. The bay's beaches are sheltered, so the page says plainly when the open-water reading is likely an overestimate.

Seven routes in one place — the Pentewan Valley Trail, the Green Corridor, three Clay Trails and two coast-path stretches — with distance, surface, parking and the honest notes about hills and steps.

Ten documents covering demographics, the economy, civic services, local voices, geography, history, media and a tool backlog. Recurring themes: NHS dentist scarcity, the city/county council split (and its 2028 merger), Wensum flood areas, and constant bus service changes.

Ten documents covering demographics, the economy, civic services, local voices, geography, history, media and a tool backlog. Recurring themes: buses and the long wait for mass transit, Leeds-specific bin quirks, Aire flood memory, and parking.