About BRC Map
A passion project by a small group of people who love Black Rock City — and maps.
First of all, BRC Map would not be possible without your participation. We're merely the shell for all your shiny pearls of information — thank you to every gracious contributor!
The map is built from two things. Camps and artists come here and share their approximate location ahead of arriving on the playa — that is where this started, and those are the pins someone chose to put up. Alongside them we now show Burning Man's own public placement directory, so the map shows the whole city rather than only the camps who found us. You can switch the directory off in the map's Layers panel if you only want to see who opted in.
Where a camp appears in both, the pin its own people placed always wins — we never move somebody's pin to match a spreadsheet. Placements are good guesses either way, and may not reflect reality for those lucky enough to be there in person. The map should give you a decent idea of what you'll find in your neighborhood — but you'll discover even more once you're out there.
This is an unofficial map. Pins do not equal reserved space. Only Burning Man Placement determines camp locations and only the ARTery determines art placement. Always confirm on playa.
2026 streets — “Axis Mundi”
This year's radial streets are named for notional centers of the world. We show these names across the map; addresses still use the clock + street letter.
The Team
- digit
- LB
- Gizmo
Alumni
- Crockett! (Vince Ferhino — Soon To Be Infamous)
- Pee Pee La Poo (Trashistan)
- Hammer Time (Kevin Bond — Black Rock Observatory)
- DhammaSeeker (Wade Harrell — Pretty Pickle)
- Blue Skies (Mike McGee — Northwest Mist)
- Pup (Jeremy Lee — Vinyl Bunker)
What we count, and what we don't
We wanted to know whether anyone was actually using this thing, so the map counts visits. There is no Google Analytics here, and no third-party tracker of any kind — those cost you a download and a lookup on a hotspot your whole camp is sharing, and they send your browsing to a company that has nothing to do with Black Rock City.
Instead the site sends one small note to our own server saying “someone loaded this page”, at most once a minute, and only while the tab is actually open in front of you. If you attach a Meshtastic radio through the map, the same note says “a radio connected” — nothing about which radio, whose it is, or where it stands.
We do not store who you are. Your address and browser are scrambled together with today's date into a jumble of letters that cannot be turned back into either. Because the date is part of it, the jumble changes at playa midnight — so even we cannot tell that today's visitor and tomorrow's are the same person. No cookie, no advertising id, nothing kept on your device. There is nothing to opt out of because there is nothing persistent to opt out from.
The honest catch: everyone sharing one connection looks like one visitor, so on playa these numbers run low. That is fine — we only wanted to know if the map was worth keeping running.