Minjerribah / North Stradbroke Island
The island, measured by the people who love it.
The newer iPhones carry a small laser scanner beside the camera. Point one at a picnic table, a hall, a skate bowl, and it can measure the thing to about a fingernail's width. This site explains, in plain words, a way to turn those scans into drawings and models the community owns outright, with no cloud service in the middle. It also lays out where that road could lead, from one picnic table to a living model of the whole island, and it puts an honesty label on every single claim so you always know what is real today and what is still a dream.
Honesty first
Every claim wears a label.
Nothing on this site is a promise, a registered organisation, or an invitation. It is one local resident's working plans, published in the open so neighbours and decision makers can see them whole, question them, and shape them. Four labels keep it honest. If a sentence here ever reads bigger than its label, the label wins.
- Built exists today and can be checked: working code, public photos, live pages
- Designed written down in working detail, buildable, not yet built or not yet used in the field
- Proposal an idea being put forward: nothing registered, nobody invited, no money asked for
- Horizon the long dream, told openly as a dream
The whole road, honestly
From a picnic table to the island.
Six steps, each one standing on the one before it. The first two exist. The rest are labelled exactly as far along as they truly are.
- BuiltPhotograph the places first. Seventy-seven real, mapped 360° panoramas across two Dunwich sites are already public in two open data labs. The seed of any island twin is already planted, by hand, for free.
- BuiltTurn phone scans into measurable drawings. The processing pipeline exists as working, tested code on a local computer: scans in, engineering drawings and 3D models out, correct to real-world size. First real-world captures are still to come, and that is said plainly on the scan page.
- DesignedOur own scanning app. The app's source code is written. It needs one afternoon with a Mac computer to build, because Apple only lets iPhone apps be compiled on Macs. Until then, existing free scanning apps fill the gap.
- ProposalTwin the public places that matter. Skate parks, halls, picnic areas, one pocket at a time, each scan owned by the community and usable for real maintenance, real tenders, real events. See the island twin page.
- DesignedLet the twins nest. The Web3 Sensorium is design work for twins that fit inside each other, kitchen to home to island, with the person at the centre owning their own layer. See the Sensorium page.
- ProposalGive the community the keys. A local co-operative, a shared computer room at 9 Ballow Road, community hours that count, and decision-making that nests from a street to the world. See the co-op, the C-hour and governance pages.
Why this matters off-island too
What a councillor gets out of it.
Councils pay real money to know what they own and what condition it is in. A community that can scan its own picnic tables, bubblers, halls and skate bowls, to survey-useful accuracy, is a community that can hand its council an asset register with actual measurements attached, existing-conditions drawings for tender documents, and before-and-after records when storms or crowds do damage. All of it in open file formats any engineer can open, none of it locked inside a subscription. The details, including a worked example on the Windemere skate bowls, are on the scan page.
The wider family
Sister sites, same honesty.
This explainer is one window into a larger body of open, public planning work. These are the nearest neighbours. Each one labels its own status the same way this site does.
Stories, skills, screens and trusted local information for the island. In its own words: a community pitch, not a done deal. Nothing there is approved or funded unless it clearly says so.
Proposal · forming Ready S.E.T. Co-op & 9 Ballow RoadA local co-operative and a shared computer room in a vacant Dunwich shopfront. Nobody has been invited to join yet: read what it would be first.
Live site · the long ladder Grain by GrainThe island's deep-future ladder, from the ferry terminal to civilisation-scale dreams, every rung labelled by how real it is.
Country
Minjerribah is Quandamooka Country.
This site claims no cultural authority and implies no endorsement; QYAC is the public doorway for land and sea decisions. Scanning here means public places and objects, with permission where permission is due: every scan in this system carries a consent note naming who okayed the capture, and captures of culturally significant places simply do not happen without the right people saying yes. A model of Country is not Country, and this work never pretends otherwise.