An interactive map viewer for Burning Man 2025 theme camps. Works on desktop and mobile.
(In 1086, William the Conqueror sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list his holdings and dues owed to him. This became the Domesday book, a great survey of the land in most of England and Wales. I chose this name of the project because Burning Man's official data sets and APIs traditionally store approximate "nearest corner" locations for theme camps but not their actual locations.)
Explore the Map
- Pan by dragging (mouse or touch)
- Zoom with mouse wheel, trackpad pinch, or two-finger pinch on mobile
- Click Zoom to Fit to reset view (desktop only)
Discover Camps
- Type the name or part of the name of any camp to search
- Desktop: Hover to see camp info, click for sidebar, double-click for full details
- Mobile: Tap any camp for full details
- Photos and descriptions
- Contact information and website
- Location and landmark details
- Historical attendance data (2015-2024)
Historical Data
- View which years each camp has attended Burning Man
- Hover (desktop) or tap (mobile) any historical year to see that year's location, description, and website
- Click historical URLs to view archived snapshots via the Wayback Machine
- ESC or click × to Close sidebar or full-screen view
- Camp Information: Official Burning Man 2025 camp placement data
- Historical Records: Camp attendance from 1997-2024
- Map Accuracy: GeoJSON polygon boundaries aligned with official BRC coordinates
- Orientation: 12:00 positioned at the top of the map, rotating 45° from standard north-up orientation
No build required. Just open index.html in a web browser, or:
python3 -m http.server 8000Then navigate to http://localhost:8000
This is a vanilla JavaScript application with no frameworks or dependencies. All rendering uses HTML5 Canvas with custom geographic projections for accurate Black Rock City coordinates.
For Developers: See CLAUDE.md for architecture details and development guidance.
Camp borders come from https://innovate.burningman.org/dataset/2025-public-camps-map/. As of 2025 there is no official dataset associating camp borders with camp names. The camp borders are associated with consecutive camp numbers (1..1400) called FIDs which are not actually meaningful and do not correspond to anything else in the Burning Man API. There is an official map, but that only contains camp names as vectors of the camp name letters, which are placed in a way that is convenient for reading a map but not computer-readable or OCRable. Thus we built a tool called createcampnames which lives on a branch.
The createcampnames branch contains a historical tool used to build the initial FID-to-camp-name mapping. It provided an interactive interface for human volunteers to manually identify and name each camp polygon. This mapping work is complete, and the main branch now uses the finished camp_fid_mappings.json file.