When politicians and the media mention Main Street, they evoke one people and one place. But there are 10,466 streets named Main in the United States.

Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through stories, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets. We invite you to capture the stories and images of the country today. Use our Main Street map to find streets named Main close to your home or along the paths of your own travels. Go out, look around, talk to people, and contribute to this re-mapping of the United States.

The goal of this group is to document every street named Main in the country. This means going to each of these 10,466 places, snapping a photo, recording a video or writing a brief story. An absurd idea for a small group of people, but only a semi-ridiculous ambition in this era of collective intelligence.

Anyone can contribute to this project. The only requirement is that all videos must be taken on a street named Main. Use this map to find streets named Main near where you live or where you are traveling.

Tag all your videos with the following words:

- mappingmainstreet
- name of place where you shot the video (e.g. chattanooga)
- name of state where you shot the video (e.g. tennessee)
- any words you feel describe the video (e.g. people, ruin, sign, etc.)

Mapping Main Street is produced through the generous funding of Maker’s Quest 2.0, an initiative between the Association of Independent’s in Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The project is also supported with funds from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

mappingmainstreet.org

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