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Archives with addresses
City stories and visuals are placed back on their locations instead of becoming a gallery detached from space.
Surabaya Digital Archive
A city archive made for exploration.
We connect photographs, stories, and mapped places so Surabaya's history does not stay trapped in archive pages. Every point is built to be read, saved, and visited.
Surabaya Map
Synced 2D map
Explore layer
42
Explore points
with coordinates and context
7
Categories
city curation layers
2
Languages
for local and global readers
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City
Surabaya-focused, not generic
Mission
Keep history on the street, not only on the shelf.
Each point is chosen because there is a reason to go there: an event trace, a changing corridor, a public space, or a civic story. The archive gives people the context first, then helps them decide where to move next.
What we build
Built from archive, map, and exploration trails.
SDA System
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A map for reading routes
Heritage, culinary, culture, nature, night, and hotel points become a network people can turn into journeys.
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Contribution with curation
Residents can add to the archive while captions, locations, and source quality stay intentionally curated.
Design principles
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Specific to Surabaya, not a generic city catalog.
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Information-dense, but calm enough for repeat reading.
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Connect archive, map, and the user's journey.
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Make room for contribution while keeping curation clear.
City layers
From memory to real routes
Archive stores the city's reading material. Explore turns it into mapped points. Profile keeps your trail when Surabaya starts to read like a personal journey.
Active categories
Heritage
Culinary
Landmark
Culture
Nature
Night
Hotel
Start from one city point.
Open one place, read why it matters, then continue to the next point. Surabaya becomes easier to understand when its archive is connected to the street.