Cartaveo is a place to build community maps that keep working after launch day. Most community maps die in the wrong tool. A spreadsheet of drinking fountains, a Google My Maps of street art nobody has updated since 2021, a WordPress plugin only the site owner can add pins to. The data is good. The tooling kills it. On Cartaveo you create a collection, define the fields a location should have (a dropdown for condition, a checkbox for wheelchair access, opening hours, whatever fits), and other people add locations with photos. You choose whether contributions go live immediately or wait for a moderator, and whether anyone can contribute or only people you invite. What it does today: - Open collections take anonymous submissions behind a captcha, so contributors don't need an account. - Every collection can be embedded on any site. There is a WordPress plugin on wordpress.org that does it with one shortcode. - Everything is readable through a public API, so a collection is a dataset, not a walled garden. - Each collection carries a content licence, credits and a contributor brief, so people know what they are joining. Most of the work went into the unglamorous parts: moderation, permissions, photo uploads from phones, and page speed so a public map is actually findable on Google. What maps have you wanted to make and couldn't? And if anything is confusing when you try it, say so. That is the most useful feedback to get today.

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Community-built map collections. Create, add, explore places

Community-built map collections. Create, add, explore places