Project Des Moines vs Project Meridian

Project DSM is a free app that explores the history of Des Moines. Discover information on people, places, and events in Des Moines history. Explore historical information about each site on the interactive GPS-enabled map along with images from archival collections and historical publications. This project was developed by Des Moines Public Library.

Project Meridian is an interactive atlas of exploratory ideas. Move through a luminous 3D network, follow related themes, and build your own paths across science, technology, society, and culture. EXPLORE WITH CURIOSITY Browse 1,407 ideas, search text and tags, filter clusters, or take a guided tour. Each idea opens into a readable detail view with its description, themes, and imagined scale and epoch. MAKE YOUR OWN CONNECTIONS Enter a question or theme in Navigator to find related ideas using local text and tag matching. Inspect connections, compare possible paths, and arrange a journey through the atlas. KEEP WHAT INTERESTS YOU Capture idea notes, save journeys on your device, and return to a path later. The atlas and local notebook work offline, with no account required. External background-reading links require an internet connection. READ WITH CONTEXT This is an educational research preview containing speculative proposals. Connections indicate navigational similarity, not causal relationships or scientific verification. Epochs and scales describe imagined settings, not predictions or validated readiness. Selected ideas include background sources with explicit limits on what they support. Designed for curious readers, educators, researchers, artists, and builders. By DMS.