Everyone is affected by architecture. There is not one human who can say "I am not involved in architecture" You are. Whether you are aware of it or not. So people have lots of questions and lot of points to be clarified. Architects Land is a map driven social network that allows such questions to be asked and points to be clarified.

Detailed answer: Architects, developers and other professionals from the AEC industry can be placed into a special category. Such people can place the projects they designed/developed. And everyone (including the aforesaid professionals, of course) can put up points, ask questions and provide comments

Signing up here is free. It just takes a few minutes to get an account here.There are two ways to get yourself an account:

The easiest is by using the Limen Leap Labs Simple Sign-in utility. But if you don't want to use that, you can send an SMS (Explained later)

This utility can be easily downloaded into your computer (Links can be seen in the sign-in page) The utility is available for both Windows and Mac. The zip file is quite tiny. In fact, it is smaller than many website pages. Unzip the file and run the utility inside it. Enter the code you see at the sign-in page, into the utility and you can get an account in a few minutes.

No private information is ever used when you use this method. In fact you can remain totally private and anonymous, and yet authenticated.

Discussions about Architecture can invoke many passions. Sometimes the passion may get misplaced and lead to errors. Some, for example, may want to make multiple accounts here just to steer the conversation. We want to ensure that the posts and comments that appear here are of high quality.

If we followed a conventional route; such as asking for an email address, etc; there is a chance that someone can create lots of "sock-puppet" accounts and misuse the freedom they get here. After all, it just takes a few minutes to get a free email address.

Our Simple Sign-in Utility gets a unique DeviceID from your computer and sends it to our server. Nothing else is picked up. A "hashed" version of the DeviceID is then used to identify a user and give that person a unique account here. Usually, a person cannot have access to a large number of computers that he/she owns. Therefore we reduce the chance of one person taking many different accounts.

At the same time, you do not have to reveal yourself: We do not know your email address or other contact details when you create an account.

If you do not like downloading anything to your computer, you can always get an account by sending us an SMS from your mobile phone (Explained later)

Of course not. Why would we do all this just to do some mean thing like that?

The working of Simple Sign-in Utility is very easy to understand: It just picks up a unique ID of your computer with the sole purpose of giving you an account. The major advantage for you is that your email address is not needed, you don't need to "confirm" anything -- you get to use the account in just a few minutes.

So, frankly, we are very serious about your privacy -- and we think that NOT collecting anyone's email address is such a convincing point about safeguarding your privacy. We simply do not like sending out "welcome messages" and "message from the CEO" etc. We would love our users to keep using our service here -- but not because we bombarded them with emails!

We have setup a Discord community server to allow everyone to discuss with each other, and for us to communicate with you.

Actually, you get credible information BECAUSE the users can be anonymous. Think of this like a democracy: Imagine if the voters at a booth have to announce to the politicians what their names are when they poll!

On similar lines, when people put up posts and/or comments; there is more credibility -- they don't have to get worried about anyone hassling them.

We understand that position too. It may be important for professionals in the AEC industry to announce what they have done. So we have given another route to register: From the sign-in page you can send an SMS instead of using the LLL Simple SIgn-in Utility

If you already have an account, you can do this: In the settings, you can provide your contact details accordingly.

If you claim that you are a professional from the industry; please remember that we do background checks about you. It is critical that the professional has a working website given in the settings. You also will need to confirm your mobile phone number, and that phone number must be visible in your website.

We do not want people falsely claiming someone else's identity. We also do not want fake professionals here.

That is a good question! We have a great answer for it: ALL our account holders get a free, private, readonly email inbox from us.

You will get an email address of the form <username>@users.architects.land

So you would get emails on that address. Unlike a regular email address, this particular email address is a readonly system. That means you can receive emails but you cannot send any. You have to use our special email inbox which works ONLY in a browser to receive emails. It cannot be integrated with your regular email.

You can use this special email address to register at other websites/apps. That is a great way to de-clutter your regular inbox! All welcome messages, newsletters etc of those registrations would be collected in this special inbox, instead of your regular email -- thus you can read all of them at your own convenience and leisure

This is our small gift to you, for having registered with us..

Just click inside the map, and it will first check if you have signed-in. Else it will ask you to sign-in before placing a point.  If you have already signed in, it will ask if you want to place a point at the clicked location. If you say yes, you would be presented a form to create a point.

IMPORTANT: Make sure you are quite precise about placing a point. If you have zoomed far out to see the entire world, for example; then the point may not get placed at the location you thought it would go into! As a precaution, the map will NOT allow you to place a point if you have zoomed too far out.

Once that form is submitted, it can receive comments from other community members.

Generally, we encourage public comments. But private questions are coming soon. That can be useful if someone is seeking a specific advice on some issue in the built-environment. For example; criticizing a potential apartment before it is purchased.

Anyone who wants to ask such a private question would need to set a "bounty" for its answer. We will choose a few professionals who could provide the answer, and most of the bounty would go to the one who provides the best answer.

A floating panel of experts is being formed to select the answer. We'll keep you posted here and on our Discord community.

We do have some other charges for some special use cases. These are described below:

We use our internal currency called "Koyn" You top-up your account, by buying such Koyns and adding the Koyn credit into your account.

If you have Koyns balance in your account, we unfortunately cannot refund it back to you. But you can always re-use the same Koyns in other solutions that we provide. Yes, these Koyns are the same for ALL our solutions.

If you claim to be a qualified architect/professional, we reserve the right to verify the claim.  We do spot checks and if we find that you cannot support your claim then we may change your category to "General" If you want your name to be acknowledged for a project you placed as a point on the map, it is important that you are indeed qualified as a professional.

For example; if you claim you are an architect from India, you would need to supply your name as seen in the COA (Council of Architects) register. Those who are not registered with the COA in India cannot claim to be an architect.

We have to do such a check to ensure that this service gives as accurate information as possible.

Any project can get multiple points placed on them. For example; a housing project can get lots of points from those who stay there as wll as those who want to buy that property. So that kind of usage is allowed.

What is NOT allowed :
False claim of having developed or designed or given professional service on a property; is obviously not allowed.

If we receive a complaint (Email us at admin@limenleap.com), we will mark that as a conflicted point.