4.8
342 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Humanitarian organizations 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.

In MapSwipe, developed in collaboration with the Missing Maps project, users choose a crisis prone part of the world they want to help, such as spotting villages at risk from a cholera outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They must then swipe through satellite images of the region, tapping the screen when they see features they’re looking for including settlements, roads and rivers.
This information is fed back to mappers who need this information to build detailed and useful maps. At present, they have to spend days scrolling through thousands of images of uninhabited forest or scrubland looking for communities that need mapping. Now, members of the public can directly contribute to MSF’s medical activities by locating people in need more quickly so mappers, and ultimately medical professionals on the ground, can get straight to work.
Updated on
Jan 3, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info and App activity
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.8
316 reviews
A Google user
January 28, 2020
I'm not sure if how helpful it is. From a user perspective I miss the option to zoom in or out to properly identify a feature. On desktop, I can zoom in all the way to discern a house from a tree, but more importantly zoom out far enough to discern a man-made path from other linear terrain features. As it is now, I do not leave a task with the feeling that I have identified the features well, which creates frustration immediately and discourages to continue in the long run.
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Roel van der Vegte
March 9, 2022
Signing up does not work on my Fairphone 3. The app starts, I enter my username, email and password, then the app takes forever loading and it ends with a message that something went wrong with signing up. Can I create my account via a browser (could not find that option on your website).
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G T
May 8, 2021
Great cause! The maps do all seem to be barren of people though. An important tip this app doesn't mention: hold on a tile to zoom in. And if you get stuck in the tutorial, swipe from right to left!
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What's new

- Upgrade React Native version from 0.71.3 to 0.72.5
- Rename "Mission Type" to "Project Type"
- Minor bug fixes