What's New
1. Upgrade React Native to v0.71.3
2. Fix an issue where User Group stats was empty on the first load
3. Add support for custom options in footprint projects
4. Add support for dynamic information pages in the tutorial
App Description
Humanitarian organisations 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.
MapSwipe, developed in support of the Missing Maps Project, allows users to remotely contribute to humanitarian missions. Users choose a task in a crisis prone part of the world, such as spotting villages at risk of a cholera outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They then swipe through satellite images of the region, tapping the screen to mark the location of settlements, roads, rivers, and other features.
This information is fed back to mappers, who build detailed maps that can be used in the field. At present, these mappers must spend days scrolling through thousands of images of uninhabited forest or rural desert in search of small, often remote communities. With MapSwipe, members of the public can donate their time to humanitarian organizations including Médecins Sans Frontières and the Red Cross, crowdsourcing the arduous process of locating the people who need their help. With this generous contribution from users like you, professionals on the ground can get straight to work delivering life-saving aid.
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App Changes
- July 14, 2016 Initial release
- July 17, 2016 New version 1.0.1
- August 01, 2016 New version 1.1.0
- October 02, 2019 New version 2.0.0
- October 21, 2019 New version 2.0.1
- December 17, 2019 New version 2.0.2
- July 14, 2020 New version 2.0.4
- October 22, 2020 New version 2.0.7
- January 26, 2021 New version 2.0.11
- August 05, 2021 New version 2.1.5
- September 16, 2023 New version 2.2.6
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