Mapeo is a free digital toolset for documenting, monitoring, and mapping many types of data. MAPEO is a local-first open-source technology which makes it easy for many to use. No internet or special hardware required to collect, view, or share data.
Mapeo is currently deployed in 12 project areas across Guyana, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Vietnam and Peru, involving over 100 local communities.
With the push of a button, contributors can gather map data by linking GPS points, photos, and notes. All data is completely owned by the communities themselves. And a simple and adaptive interface makes it accessible for many different people to use.
We are building MAPEO in close collaboration with indigenous partners in the Amazon, including Achuar, Cocama, Kofan, Harakambut, Kichwa, Siekopai, Wapichana and Waorani peoples. Our partner organizations include indigenous federations & alliances like Alianza Ceibo, ECA-RCA, PUINAMUDT and South Central People's Development Organisation, as well as NGO partners including Amazon Frontlines, Forest Peoples Programme, Gaia Amazonas Rainforest Foundation US and Witness. Technical partners include Mapbox, Development Seed, the Dat Foundation and more. For more on Digital Democracy's partners, visit our partnership page.
The development of MAPEO has been made possible due to generous grants from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Knight Foundation, Abundance Foundation, All Eyes on the Amazon (Dutch Postcode Lottery), and Samsung Next Zero.
- Github: Mapeo Desktop
- Github: Mapeo Mobile
- Github: Mapeo Core
- Website
- People
- #ddem on IRC, in freenode, or Slack
We have collected project updates that we've written under Project updates below.
- This month we will deploy Mapeo in communities in Peru that were previously using Open Data Kit.
- Actively raising money for Mapeo from NLnet, opentech.fund, and others.
- Updating mapeo-core, osm-p2p-db, and multifeed to hypercore 8 & hypercore-protocol v7