General Data · by DriftWest

Data is the new gold.
You're standing on it.

Every AI data centre going up needs fuel. The fuel is data — and the rarest, most valuable kind is the simplest: a real person, in a real place, writing down what's actually there. That's General Data. Real human observations.

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Why your eyes are worth something

The internet's been scraped. The models have read it. What they can't get from a server farm is what's happening on a gravel road outside Strathmore this morning.

Ground truth is scarce

Satellites see from 700 km up. Models guess. A person standing in the field knows. Every check on the ground makes the guesses better.

Synthetic eats itself

AI trained on AI output drifts. Fresh, first-hand, timestamped, located observations are the thing it can't make for itself.

Small adds up

One bar of signal, one deer, one pothole, one beach photo. Alone it's a note. Ten thousand of them is a map nobody else has.

It's just fun

Drives get a mission. Walks get a score. You start noticing everything. Badges don't hurt either.

The pile, live

Every number here is counted from the real stores, refreshed every half hour. Gold is people. Teal is our machines working alongside them.

What people have logged in the field

Badges

The crew's combined haul climbs this ladder together. Personal badges come with your own collector profile in the apps — the ladder is the same, so start now and your first drops count.

The tools

Pick your patch. Everything here feeds the same pile.

Ground Boots

Roads · fields · signal · wildlife

The field app. Drive or walk a trip, log what you see in a tap — signal bars, wildlife, road damage, water, crops. Photos, voice notes and a one-tap tally widget. Every point is GPS-stamped.

Field Collector

No install · any phone

Open it in your browser and start logging right where you stand. Bounties point you at the spots that need eyes most.

BeachBook

Beaches · lakes · shorelines

Hundreds of beaches mapped with satellite clarity, algae and temperature reads — and the photos people take there. Add yours and it becomes part of the record.

RockID

Rocks · bedrock · what's under you

Photograph a rock, get it identified, and see the geology under your feet. Every find adds a located specimen to the pile.

Plant & sky sensors

EMF · weather · lightning

Sensors on living plants, local weather, and every lightning cell within 100 km — our machines collecting next to you, around the clock.

Sealed calls

Predictions · checked honestly

Data is only gold if it's honest. We seal forecasts before the fact and grade them after, in public. Wins and misses both stay up.

The house rules

Collecting data people can trust means collecting it in a way people can trust.

Real, or nothingOnly things you saw, heard, or measured yourself. No copy-paste, no guesses logged as facts.
Places, not peopleLog the road, the field, the beach. Not faces, licence plates, or anyone's private yard.
Stamped and keptEvery observation keeps its time and place. That's what makes it worth something.
Counts are publicTotals on this page are aggregates only — no locations or names are published here.

Go make some gold.

Open the collector, step outside, log the first thing you notice. That's your First Drop.