MapSwipe 4+
Humanitarian volunteering
British Red Cross
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
iPhone Screenshots
Description
Help improve humanitarian responses worldwide from the comfort of your own phone
Humanitarian organisations can't help people if they can't find them. MapSwipe is a mobile app that lets you search satellite imagery to help put the world's most vulnerable people on the map.
MapSwipe, developed in support of the Missing Maps Project, allows users to remotely contribute to humanitarian missions. Users choose a task in a crisis prone part of the world, such as spotting villages at risk of a cholera outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They then swipe through satellite images of the region, tapping the screen to mark the location of settlements, roads, rivers, and other features.
This information is fed back to mappers, who build detailed maps that can be used in the field. At present, these mappers must spend days scrolling through thousands of images of uninhabited forest or rural desert in search of small, often remote communities. With MapSwipe, members of the public can donate their time to humanitarian organizations including Médecins Sans Frontières and the Red Cross, crowdsourcing the arduous process of locating the people who need their help. With this generous contribution from users like you, professionals on the ground can get straight to work delivering life-saving aid.
What’s New
Version 2.2.10
- Add accessibility feature in 'Find' and 'Compare' project types
- Add a pop-up modal to show accessibility feature
- Add the new icons in tutorials
- Updated source English texts
- Similar usernames are no longer valid and cannot be used moving forward (unique migration done for this)
Ratings and Reviews
Great concept
This app allows you to contribute to humanitarian work around the world. It's simple to use, I imagine the result depends a lot on the user. I hope this is useful on the ground.
Two UX suggestions:
It would be useful to allow hard press for a "red" bad tile, in addition to triple-tap.
I find zoom a bit awkward - often the finger I used to hold the tile then obscures the zoomed image. I'd suggest after zoom, the enlarged image stays in place, with another tap on the tile to remove zoom.
Good, but...
I love the idea behind this app, and the interface is very intuitive and simple to use. However, it keeps crashing on my iPad 2. I can never seem to get much past mapping 31% of a given area before the whole thing dies, and it takes me back to the start of that area again when I reopen the app. There is 3GB of free space on the iPad, so it shouldn't be a problem. Do other users find the same? This is frustrsting because it's making me not want to bother :/
Love this!
What's not to like? Cool imagery. User-friendly app. Helping people in resource-poor settings. All at the same time
App Privacy
The developer, British Red Cross, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- British Red Cross Society
- Size
- 29.1 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Missing Maps
- Price
- Free