Guidelines

Talk, do not lecture. Record it like you are telling a friend on the street. The sweet spot is 60 to 120 seconds, and under 3 minutes keeps people listening.

Say what someone is looking at in the first breath. They are standing right there.

Check your transcript against the recording before you send it. Someone who cannot hear the audio gets the transcript and nothing else, so it has to be right.

Get the owner’s permission before you stick anything up. For lamp posts, railings and other street furniture, that usually means the council or the BID.

Unauthorised flyposting can be an offence in the United Kingdom, and a sticker that annoys a shopkeeper gets scraped off within a week anyway. Permission first is faster in the end.

Easy wins: community noticeboards, shop windows with the shopkeeper’s blessing, venue walls, library boards, and anywhere your town has agreed spots.

Documenting existing street art and graffiti as cultural record is allowed and celebrated here. The artwork status badge keeps us honest with visitors about how a piece came to be.

Credit the artist when you can. Anonymous credit is fine. Never give away the identity of an artist who works anonymously.

Not allowed: content that instructs or encourages unauthorised painting or stickering, or that maps a route into private property. We celebrate what is on the wall. We do not commission it.

Every stop has a transcript, and that will never sit behind a paid tier. Nor will any accessibility feature. Ever.

If a stop is about your property or your work and you want it gone, use the takedown page. A curator will act quickly, and a retired code shows a polite goodbye rather than an error.