MapSwipe is a tools app developed by British Red Cross.
Download Statistics
MapSwipe has been downloaded 58 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 360 times.
User Ratings
MapSwipe is rated 4.79 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 340 ratings.
App Information
MapSwipe is FREE to download. The APK download size is 91.25 MB. The latest version available is 3.0.4. The last update was on August 10, 2026.
Technical Requirements
MapSwipe requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play July 2016.
Description
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.
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Good app and great cause, but I occasionally encounter bugs. A common bug is, during building validations, the app may unexpectedly close or the map tiles don't appear.
★★★★★Malcolm Smith· Sep 30, 2017
A simple way to contribute to a great organization. The app provides multiple offline options to work, and is simple to figure out.
★★★★☆Len Aye· Jun 12, 2018
My first review was cut off for some reason, so here it is again. 1- show lat/lon of imagery on each screen, so I can use the web to check details if I'm not so sure on the app 2- quick and easy way to mark all 6 tiles as bad imagery, e.g. tap once to select all tiles, tap again to mark as bad and tap once again to confirm. That's 3 taps instead of 18 taps I have to do right now, and there are many instances of full cloud cover on Colombia region. 3- show on summary a list of projects that each user worked on, the no of kms covered and no of objects found per project. This helps users motivated to help in further projects. Right now, all we get is a summary. Simply showing the Level alone is not sufficient; what does a Level 10 compared to Level 8, for example. 4- On my 8" Android tablet, holding down on a square is supposed to show a magnified image of that square but what it actually shows is no bigger or better resolution than the normal square. The magnified square looks better on iPhone or An drone phone but not on the tablet.
★☆☆☆☆Christine Battersby· Apr 9, 2020
New phone and no longer works. Not sure if it is phoned or new version. Can't zoom and also can't swipe. Tutorial also stuck. What a shame.
★☆☆☆☆A Google user· Oct 12, 2017
Why it requires permissions before installation, instead of asking for them as needed? Also, how this data is used? Link to current status would be useful, I am a bit dubious that this data is really usefully used.
★★☆☆☆Roel van der Vegte· Mar 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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