Quox Labs · designed, not built
A globe you can prove.
Quoxel is Quox's geospatial addressing grid: the layer that gives a place a stable name so real-world data and the events that change it can be attached to it, and witnessed. Everyone has an OSINT globe. Nobody has one you can prove. This is a design published early so it can be argued with. None of it is built.
In plain words
What it is, where it lives, when to reach for it
- What is it
- A design for a geospatial addressing grid, so a place can be named, layered and witnessed.
- Where do I use it
- Nowhere yet. It is a published design for a future QuoxCORE subsystem, not a running surface.
- When would I use it
- When you need to prove what a place looked like at a time, not merely assert it.
- How do I use it
- You cannot use it yet: no code exists. Register interest and we will tell you when it does.
QuoxCORE is the free, self-hosted platform underneath this. What is QuoxCORE
Read this first
Quoxel has no code. Not an early version, not a prototype behind a flag: no repository, no daemon, no endpoint.
The other two surfaces in Quox Labs ship software that runs and then tell you what it cannot do yet. This one has nothing to run. It is here because publishing a design early is how it gets better, and because a concept sitting in a private backlog cannot be corrected by the people who would use it.
The design
Four ideas, in the order they depend on each other.
The addressing grid is the foundation of the Quox Planet concept: a first-class geospatial subsystem where layers, events and lenses over the physical world are held to the same evidence standard as everything else Quox records.
- 01
The grid
A place gets a name that does not move.
Quoxel would divide the world into addressable cells, so a field, a substation or a stretch of coast has one stable identifier instead of a pair of coordinates that every system rounds differently. An address you can join on is the precondition for everything else on this page.
- 02
The layers
Data attaches to the place, not to a file.
A layer is a body of real-world data bound to cells: terrain, ownership, sensor coverage, outage maps, whatever the reader brought. Layers would compose, so two sources about the same ground can be read together instead of eyeballed side by side in separate tabs.
- 03
The events
Change is a first-class record, not a redraw.
When a layer changes, that change would be an event against the cells it touched, with a time and a provenance. A map that only shows now cannot answer what it showed last Tuesday. An event log over an addressed grid can.
- 04
The witness
The part nobody else has.
Layers and events would be WARD-witnessed, the same way the rest of the Quox stack witnesses its evidence. That turns the globe from a rendering into a claim you can check: this layer said this about this place at this time, and here is the receipt.
If it existed
A verifiable view, and a verifiable time machine.
- An insurer disputes what the flood extent was on the night of a claim.
- The claimant points at a public map. The insurer points at a different one. Both are showing today.
- Under Quoxel the question is not whose map is prettier. It is which witnessed events touched these cells on that date.
- The answer is a set of receipts: the layer, its source, the time it was written, and the hash that proves it has not been edited since.
- None of this runs today. It is written here so the design can be argued with before it is built.
Limits
The honest state of it.
What exists
This page, and the design it describes. Nothing else.
What does not exist
The grid, the layer store, the event log, the witness integration, the API, the UI and the ingest. There is no repository to look at and no binary to run.
What is uncertain
Cell geometry and resolution are undecided, and so is whether Quoxel ships as a QuoxCORE subsystem or as its own service. Anyone telling you otherwise is guessing.
What would change this
Interest. Quoxel is on this page rather than in a backlog because the owner wants it built. Who needs it, and for what, decides whether it moves.
Quoxel is not for sale, has no price and has no download, because there is nothing to sell or download. If the idea is useful to you, saying so is the thing that moves it. Register interest