{
 "kind": "route",
 "format": "kosplora-route/0.1",
 "question": "What does one intentional community near you actually invite?",
 "move": [
  "understand",
  "make"
 ],
 "audience": "For one careful visitor. The public map gains a second pair of eyes.",
 "time": {
  "solo": "2h",
  "together": "half a day, if a visit is invited"
 },
 "authors": [
  {
   "name": "Bentley, with Claude",
   "date": "2026-08-18"
  }
 ],
 "drafted_with": "Claude (Anthropic), directed and edited by Bentley",
 "would_change": "If a community asks not to be described in public, the artifact stays private and the route still completes. A pattern of such requests would change how the map words invitations altogether, and this route with it.",
 "conditions": {
  "asks": [
   "time",
   "energy",
   "social"
  ],
  "note": "Filled in the walker, kept on your device, expires with the route."
 },
 "stations": [
  {
   "type": "orient",
   "time": "25m",
   "task": "Open the public map and read how it was made: every entry from public sources, distances drawn at their real size, and its own admission that no second mapper has checked it.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Earthen Beings: the map and its method",
     "author": "Earthen Beings",
     "date": "2026-08",
     "url": "https://earthenbeings.com/",
     "origin": "dataset"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "source",
   "time": "30m",
   "task": "Read one chapter on how forming communities actually succeed and fail, so the visit reads signals instead of brochures.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Creating a Life Together",
     "author": "Diana Leafe Christian",
     "date": "2003",
     "origin": "published"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "place",
   "time": "40m plus travel",
   "task": "Pick one entry within reach. Check its public sources yourself, then follow the entry's own boundary line for contact: some invite visits, some invite email, some ask for distance.",
   "alternatives": [
    "If travel is not available, verification through the community's stated contact route is a full version of this station, and the map says so."
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "counterpoint",
   "time": "15m",
   "task": "State the strongest case that your visit costs the community more than the correction is worth. Christian's chapters on visitor load and membership process are the source, and the entry's own boundary line is the evidence.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Creating a Life Together, on visitors and membership process",
     "author": "Diana Leafe Christian",
     "date": "2003",
     "origin": "published"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "type": "make",
   "time": "30m",
   "template": "verification-note",
   "task": "Write the verification note in the map's own fields: what is actually invited, the boundary, the date you checked, and a source for every line."
  },
  {
   "type": "reflect",
   "time": "10m",
   "task": "Note what the public record had wrong, and whether the community should hear it before the map does."
  }
 ],
 "artifact": {
  "template": "verification-note",
  "keeps": "A dated verification note in the map's entry format, offered through the map's own ask door. The map has never had a second mapper. This artifact is one."
 },
 "exit": [
  "keep",
  "share",
  "fork",
  "teach",
  "correct-a-source",
  "close"
 ],
 "revisions": [
  {
   "date": "2026-08-18",
   "change": "First version.",
   "by": "Bentley and Claude"
  }
 ]
}