Jerry's Map
Jerry's Map is an imaginary city created by Jerry, which he started drawing in 1963 as a doodle during his spare time. The map was set aside in 1983 but was later rediscovered by Jerry's son, Henry, who inspired Jerry to continue the project. The map has since evolved into a two-dimensional virtual world art project consisting of over 4000 individual panels, with its execution dictated by a set of rules and random instructions.
- ▪Jerry started drawing the map in 1963 and continued to add to it until 1983.
- ▪The map was rediscovered by Jerry's son, Henry, who inspired Jerry to continue the project.
- ▪The map is now comprised of over 4000 individual eight by ten inch panels.
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| Original publisher | Jerry's Map |
| Canonical URL | http://www.jerrysmap.com/the-map |
| Publication time | Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:40:22 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-23T18:51:27.242Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-23T18:51:27.242Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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What is it?In the summer of 1963 Jerry began drawing a map of an imaginary city. The work started as a doodle done in the spare time he had while working at a tedious job. He continued to add to that map through the years until, in 1983, he set it aside to put his free time to other use.It was stored in the attic of his home in Cold Spring, New York. It gathered dust. Jerry’s son, Henry, found it one day while rummaging around. He brought it down and asked what it was. Seeing it then triggered Jerry to dust it off and continue the project.Years later, the Map is now a two-dimensional “virtual world” art project which is now comprised of over 4000 individual eight by ten inch panels. When assembled, these panels form an approximate circle.
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