Playing with cartographic accuracy on Microsoft Copilot certainly qualifies as a procrastination trigger, yet did result in this moderately usable, even fun, Infomappic for Broad Street Ward.
⚠️ CONSUMER SAFETY WARNING: BROAD STREET WARD INFOMAPPIC – BEAUTIFUL MAP, QUESTIONABLE GUIDE TO REALITY.
This Infomappania is intended for entertainment, civic pride, and the occasional intelligent conversation over a glass of something restorative. It is not suitable for navigation, surveying, architectural research, historical verification, or any activity requiring buildings to exist where they are depicted.
Please be advised:
- Navigation: Streets may be approximately correct, improbably bent, or entirely at the mercy of artistic licence. Following this map could leave you five minutes from anywhere — including where you started.
- Landmarks: Buildings may be misplaced, misproportioned, duplicated, or enjoying facilities they have never possessed. No lavatory, entrance, courtyard, or convenient side door should be assumed to exist.
- Livery companies: Inclusion does not establish that a company occupies premises within the Ward. Exclusion does not imply that it has ceased to exist, gone bankrupt, or offended the Alderman.
- History: Erasmus, Thomas Cromwell, and other distinguished visitors may have been rearranged by the illustrator. Erasmus did visit England, but this map is not evidence of where, when, or with whom.
- International connections: Banks, law firms, churches, and other institutions are shown to illustrate connections, not to certify their current addresses, tenancy arrangements, or opening hours.
- Architectural verisimilitude: Any resemblance between an illustrated building and its actual counterpart may be coincidental. Gothic spires, brass machinery, and convenient rooftops should not be relied upon by conservation officers.
- QR codes and digital destinations: Scan at your own discretion. The code is intended to point towards the relevant website, not to transport you there physically.
IN CASE OF DISORIENTATION: Consult an actual street map, a reliable navigation service, or a City of London officer who knows where the buildings are.
DISCLAIMER: No buildings were intentionally moved in the making of this illustration. Any that appear to have moved are presumed to be exercising their right to artistic freedom.
Broad Street Ward: ten minutes’ walk, ten hundred years of connections, and not a single guarantee of cartographic accuracy.
