BlankMap is a community-driven mapping platform that helps people discover essential public facilities in their city. The platform allows users to contribute and share information about public services that are often missing or hard to find on traditional maps.
Instead of relying only on centralized data, BlankMap empowers citizens to collaboratively build a useful and inclusive map of their environment.
In many cities, people struggle to find basic public facilities such as toilets, drinking water points, dustbins, or accessibility services. Existing mapping platforms mainly focus on navigation and businesses, leaving many essential civic services unmapped or outdated.
This lack of accessible information leads to inconvenience, poor sanitation, and difficulty for travelers, elderly people, and people with disabilities.
Cities should be accessible and easy to navigate for everyone. When people cannot locate essential facilities, it affects public health, cleanliness, safety, and overall convenience.
More importantly, cities work best when communities actively share knowledge and support each other. A collaborative mapping system enables citizens to contribute information about their surroundings, creating a living community-driven map that improves urban life.
BlankMap provides a crowdsourced platform where users can discover and add locations of important public facilities.
Users can contribute information and help maintain an updated map that benefits everyone. The goal is to create a community-powered civic infrastructure map.
Users can map essential public facilities such as:
- 🚻 Public Toilets
- 🚰 Drinking Water Points
- 🚮 Public Dustbins
- 🚌 Bus Stops and Transport Points
- 👶 Women & Infant Care Facilities (Breastfeeding / Nursing Rooms)
- ♿ Accessibility Facilities (Ramps, Wheelchair Access, Accessible Toilets)
Additional features include:
- Community-based facility updates
- Location-based search for nearby services
- User contributions to add new facilities
- Reporting or updating facility conditions
- Users open the platform and view a map interface showing nearby public facilities.
- They can search for essential services like toilets, water points, or accessibility facilities.
- If a facility is missing, users can add the location with details and photos.
- Other users can verify, update, or report the condition of the facility.
Over time, this creates a collaborative and continuously improving civic map.
BlankMap aims to:
- Improve access to essential public facilities
- Support inclusive urban environments
- Encourage community participation in city improvement
- Help citizens and travelers easily find important services
- Facility rating and cleanliness score
- AI-based detection of areas lacking essential services
- Real-time updates and notifications
- Integration with smart city infrastructure
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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