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Drive the coast, one road at a time

A drive is a road and every project along it, in the order you would pass them. Scroll, and the camera travels the tarmac.

On the map today

roads published
⁦1⁩roads published
kilometres of coast
⁦221⁩kilometres of coast
towns and resort areas
⁦4⁩towns and resort areas
projects along them
⁦144⁩projects along them

The roads

The shape of The North Coast, drawn from the road itself, with its ⁦54⁩ placed projects marked along it
Ends at: Ras El HekmaStarts at: Alexandria

The North Coast

Alexandria to Ras El Hekma, along the road the whole coast is addressed by.

Passing through

Length of road
⁦221.1⁩ km
Stops
⁦4⁩
Projects placed
⁦54⁩ of ⁦144⁩
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A few of the projects along it

All ⁦144⁩ projects on this road →

Which roads are published

A road appears here once its stops are pinned. A project only reaches the map after a person has confirmed its location, because automatic geocoding of these addresses goes wrong often enough to put a compound in the sea — so every road says how many of its projects are placed, and a road whose stops are still being confirmed is not listed yet. The remaining coastlines are drawn and waiting on exactly that.

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What a drive is

Nobody chooses a coastal home from a grid. What decides it is where the place actually sits: which town it is nearest, what is next door, how far it is to the next thing at all, and how long the drive from the city really takes. A filtered list answers none of that, because there is no geography in a list.

Egypt's coast makes the point plainly. The whole North Coast is addressed by kilometre marker on the Alexandria–Marsa Matrouh road, where “KM 129” is an address every buyer, broker and developer understands without opening a map. So rather than scatter the catalogue over one and leave you to it, we drew the road and put the projects on it in the order you reach them.

That is all a drive is: the same catalogue you would find under projects, with the same prices and the same developers, arranged by geography instead of by relevance. Nothing on it is ranked and nothing on it is sponsored.

How a drive works

Three things move together, and none of them needs explaining twice.

  1. ⁦1⁩Scrolling is travelling

    The page's scroll is distance along the road, and a readout counts the kilometres up as you go. Empty desert is compressed and the built-up stretches are given room, so a 400 km road takes about as long to read as a busy 200 km one.

  2. ⁦2⁩The rail is the road

    Every project sits on a rail down the side at its own distance along the road, so a crowded stretch looks crowded and a lonely one looks lonely. Pick any mark and the camera flies to it.

  3. ⁦3⁩The card is what you are passing

    The project you are level with, not the one an algorithm chose: its photograph, its developer, the price it starts at, how far off the road it sits, and a way to call or message about it.

If your device asks for reduced motion the camera holds still and the drive becomes a map you can pan — the same road, and the same projects. Every project on the road is written out as a plain list under each drive as well, which needs no map and no JavaScript at all.