Told Here

Live map: https://toldhere.co.uk Demo video: https://youtu.be/-ZlaLJkM5cY Code: https://github.com/MicroQuack/told-here Told Here is a 3D map of Northampton's old shoe factories. Thirteen factories stand in 3D, and every fact on their cards links to its source. You can ask it questions, and an agent built on Meta's Muse Spark Open finds the answer in the map's sources, flies you there and shows you the building. My nan was a skiver in Northampton's shoe factories. When I asked the family, the story changed: my aunty put me straight on where she worked. The people who could fill in the gaps are in their seventies, eighties and nineties now, and their memories sit in Facebook comments, tied to no building at all. Ask it a question and an agent built on Muse Spark Open on Baseten searches the map's sourced passages with six tools, answers with links, then flies to the factory, opens its card and shows a photo or an old fire-insurance plan. Code checks every link, number and "reported" fact, and if the answer isn't in a source, the agent says so. Memories come in from the map or WhatsApp. In my editor, Muse Voice Transcribe writes them down, Muse Spark 1.3 tidies them and Muse Wonder checks the meaning is kept. Nothing is published without the person's yes to the exact words. I asked the town on Facebook. The post had 39 reactions and 44 comments, with messages from as far away as Ireland and Canada. Former workers and their families replied, and six memories are now on the map, each approved word for word by the person who shared it. The first is my own, about my nan. Northamptonshire Archives cleared nine of its photos and plans for the film. My post asking the town: https://www.facebook.com/groups/northamptonphotos/posts/10164246707679965/ Next: more of Northampton's factories and memories, then other places built by one trade, such as Stoke-on-Trent's potteries, Lancashire's mills and the South Wales coalfield. The same steps (sourced records, a 3D map and memories approved by the people who shared them) can work for any of them.