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Datasets
2023
2023 Art Discovery Audio Guide
The Art Discovery Audio Guide is an audio based tour to prepare for your awesome art-filled playa experience.
The guide is available via Soundcloud and we encourage you to point your users to download it there.
This dataset contains a track listing with the UID and full art installation name for each track, a zip of all the WAV files with original titles, and zips of the tracks named with the UID of the art installation in wav and aac formats.
2023 GIS Map Data
Black Rock City is planned and operated using precise mapping data gathered and processed after the Golden Spike is set at the center of the city. This dataset is exported from that mapping operation and provides the GPS locations of streets, trash fence, and points of interest in the city.
- MBTiles map of the city with streets & labels in vector & raster formats
- Street Outlines in KMZ & GeoJSON
- Street Centerlines in KMZ & GeoJSON
- Portable Toilets in KMZ & GeoJSON
- City Outline (trash fence) in KMZ & GeoJSON
- Promenades/Burn areas in KMZ & GeoJSON
- Common Place Names (CPNs) in KMZ & GeoJSON
JSON Archive 2015 – 2022
Archive of Camps, Art Installs, and Events 2015 – 2022:
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2022
2023 Golden Spike and General City Map Data
The Golden Spike is a physical stake that establishes the center most point of Black Rock City. From this coordinate, the layout of city streets and location of key installations are mapped. The coordinates provided here are estimates until the official golden spike is placed. We also provide a more accurate map in KML and MBTiles formats the first week of August.
40.786400, -119.203500
For additional city map related data see these sources:
Airport Flight Paths
KML for 88NV airport, associated procedures, and nearby points of interest. Also includes graphic overlays of air traffic. Contributions welcome!
2022
2022 Golden Spike and General City Map Data
The Golden Spike is a physical stake that establishes the center most point of Black Rock City. From this coordinate, the layout of city streets and location of key installations are mapped.
40.787030, -119.202740
For additional city map related data see these sources:
2019
2019 Golden Spike and General City Map Data
The Golden Spike is a physical stake that establishes the center most point of Black Rock City. From this coordinate, the layout of city streets and location of key installations are mapped.
40.785980, -119.205840
For additional city map related data see these sources:
2018
2018 Art Discovery Audio Guide
The Art Discovery Audio Guide is put together by Jim Tierney and Evonne Heyning, to prepare for your awesome art-filled playa experience.
The guide is available via Soundcloud and we encourage you to point your users to download it there.
Jim Tierney has also provided a set with API UIDs as file names.
2018 Golden Spike and General City Map Data
The Golden Spike is a physical stake that establishes the center most point of Black Rock City. From this coordinate, the layout of city streets and location of key installations are mapped.
40.7864, -119.2065
For additional city map related data see these sources:
2017
2017 Art Discovery Audio Guide
The Art Discovery Audio Guide is put together by Jim Tierney and Evonne Heyning, to prepare for your awesome art-filled playa experience.
The guide is available via Soundcloud and we encourage you to point your users to download it there.
Jim Tierney has also provided a set with API UIDs as file names.