Citizen Crowdmapping Platform
Mark-a-Spot is an open-source, fully-responsive mobile and desktop platform for municipal government 311 service reporting, tracking and monitoring, civic-issue crowdmapping, and geolocation-based civic-engagement based on Drupal 9.
New! Mark-a-Spot 4.0, check out our blog post.
Use-Cases for Civic-Tech and Participatory Government
Mark-a-Spot's flexibility makes it easy to deploy platforms in different scenarios. Do you want to learn more about the organisations who use the software in different scenarios?
Idea Management
Collect location-based ideas in your city's neighboorhoods, e.g places for bike racks and new transit stops.
Collaborative Open Data
Citizen collect datasets and publish them directly as Open Data via the built-in Open311 Server. Integrates seamlessly with existing 311 applications
Citizen collaboration
Public civic-issue tracking: Citicens report infrastructural problems like potholes or downed trees
Civic particpation
Participatory budgeting and resource-allocation: Let citizens discuss and vote on location-based proposals in an urban planning context.
Features
Mark-a-Spot offers crowdsourcing, processing, publishing and visualizing information, even as open data via the built-in GeoReport v2 Server.
Adoption Worldwide
Mark-a-Spot has been used in NGO projects (World Bank Group for Maputo), city adminstrations like Munich and Cologne (Germany), civic society projects and newspapers (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Stavanger Aftenblad). For a full list of implementations and case studies, get in touch!
