Datasets

  • 2026 Public Camps Map

    The 2026 Public Camp Map is provided by Placement and posted at Playa Info. The map is not 100% accurate as camps can move up until they are officially placed. The most up to date information about the location of camps is available via the Burning Man Public API.

    For more information visit the 2026 Black Rock City Plan.

    Release Date: August 30, 2026

    Contact: email

    Key Required: No

  • 2026 Art Discovery Audio Guide

    The Art Discovery Audio Guide is an audio based tour to prepare for your awesome art-filled playa experience.

    Your tour guides for this year’s audio art tour are “Diablo” (Tim Nakayama), spec Guy, “Phoenix” (Leanne Unruh), “DitchWitch” (Wendy Baker), “Professor John” (John Valentino), Karri Sicard and, “G-Spot” (Geralda Miller).

    The guide is available via Soundcloud and we encourage you to point your users to download it there.

    This dataset contains a zip of all the MP3 files with original titles and zips of the tracks named with the UID of the art installation in mp3 and aac formats. The non UID dataset also includes Intro and Theme tracks.

    Release Date: August 20, 2026

    Key Required: No

  • 2026 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.

    Data is posted to GitHub when it is made available: https://github.com/burningmantech/innovate-GIS-data

    Data Provided in GeoJSON:

    • Street Outlines
    • Street Centerlines
    • Portable Toilets
    • City Outline (trash fence)
    • Plazas
    • City Blocks
    • Deep-Playa Music Zone (DMZ)
    • Points of Interest (CPNs)

    Release Date: July 13, 2026

    Contact: email

    Key Required: No

  • 2026 Golden Spike and Black Rock City Plan

    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 locations of key installations are mapped. We will provide a more accurate map in KML and GeoJSON formats the first week of July.

    40.783242, -119.207871

    For additional city map related data see these sources:

    Release Date: April 16, 2026

    Contact: email

    Key Required: No

  • 2025 Public Camps Map

    The 2025 Public Camp Map is provided by Placement and posted at Playa Info. The map is not 100% accurate as camps can move up until they are officially placed. The most up to date information about the location of camps is available via the Burning Man Public API.

    For more information visit the 2025 Black Rock City Plan.

    This year iBurn developers Chris Ballinger and David Brodsky have managed to geocode the camps in the PDF and convert to geoJSON. Theses files are also included along with the PDF map.

    If you already have an API Key and want early access to this document fill out a Request for Early Access to The Public Camp PDF.

    Release Date: August 24, 2025

    Contact: email

    Key Required: No

  • 2025 Art Discovery Audio Guide

    The Art Discovery Audio Guide is an audio based tour to prepare for your awesome art-filled playa experience.

    Your tour guides for this audio art tour are “Diablo” (Tim Nakayama), spec Guy, “Phoenix” (Leanne Unruh), “DitchWitch” (Wendy Baker), and “G-Spot” (Geralda Miller).

    The guide is available via Soundcloud and we encourage you to point your users to download it there.

    This dataset contains a zip of all the MP3 files with original titles and zips of the tracks named with the UID of the art installation in mp3 and aac formats.

    Release Date: August 11, 2025

    Key Required: No

  • 2025 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.

    Data is posted to GitHub when it is made available: https://github.com/burningmantech/innovate-GIS-data

    Data Provided:

    • Street Outlines in KMZ & GeoJSON
    • Street Centerlines in KMZ & GeoJSON
    • Portable Toilets in KMZ & GeoJSON
    • City Outline (trash fence) in KMZ & GeoJSON
    • Plazas in KMZ & GeoJSON
    • City Blocks in KMZ & GeoJSON
    • Deep-Playa Music Zone (DMZ) KMZ & GeoJSON
    • Points of Interest (CPNs) KMZ & GeoJSON

    Release Date: July 16, 2025

    Contact: email

    Key Required: No

  • 2025 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 locations of key installations are mapped. We will provide a more accurate map in KML and GeoJSON formats the first week of July.

    40.786958, -119.202994

    For additional city map related data see these sources:

    Release Date: June 24, 2025

    Contact: email

    Key Required: No

  • 2024 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.

    Release Date: August 12, 2024

    Contact: email

    Key Required: No

  • 2024 Art Discovery Audio Guide

    The Art Discovery Audio Guide is an audio based tour to prepare for your awesome art-filled playa experience.

    Your curious audio tour guides are “Diablo” (Tim Nakayama), spec Guy, Leanne Unruh, “DitchWitch” (Wendy Baker), and “G-Spot” (Geralda Miller).

    The guide is available via Soundcloud and we encourage you to point your users to download it there.

    This dataset contains 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.

    Release Date: August 7, 2024

    Key Required: No