Platform Features

Respondents can answer your questions by marking points or drawing lines and polygons on a map. The response data includes coordinates, so you can take it easily to GIS software or analyze the map data directly in Maptionnaire.

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You can combine map-based drawing questions with further questions to gather as precise spatial information as needed. Analyze map-based data based on demographic information gathered in the same survey.

Use our built-in selection of beautiful background maps, your own maps (in WMTS, WMS, ESRI shapefile, XYZ basemap, GeoJSON, Bing, Mapbox, WFS, Vector Tile Service, and GeoTIFF formats), or draw a quick map overlay in Maptionnaire. For advanced use, you can also integrate Maptionnaire survey data with your map services.

Respondents allocate a budget and mark on the map where different budget items should be located. If you’re interested in running a participatory budgeting project, Maptionnaire offers a dedicated solution for you.

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Ensure respondents provide the data you need by predefining response options on a map with points, lines, polygons, or grids. You can also upload your own shapefile with desired locations.

Add click-to-open pop-ups on your map features, allowing you to include additional details or ask clarifying questions about specific locations.

Focus your survey on a specific location on the map or direct respondents to view different maps according to their answers (for example, zip code).

Inspire residents and stakeholders to share their thoughts about specific areas or plan features with each other.

Direct where respondents can provide input by adding a masking layer on a map. This lets you guide responses to specific areas or exclude certain areas from consideration.

Skip one or more questions or branch your questionnaire based on the respondent's earlier survey response.

Ask respondents to allocate budgets and vote in polls using dedicated question elements.

Allow respondents to see what others marked on the map and use our discussion feature to start conversations.

Images are often more effective than words. You can use images as answer options, as backgrounds or in the main content. Video clips, icons, and GIFs are also supported.

We have been awarded A/AA ratings in WCAG 2.0 evaluations by a third party. Our platform supports textual, visual, and audio communication.

With the File upload element, you can ask respondents to answer by taking a photo or sending in a video or audio message . This helps you gather versatile information, as well as makes the survey more accessible.

Know the habits of your respondents and improve your engagement practices: track how long the respondent took to answer, what device they were using, and whether they made it to the end of the survey. You can also see which questions were most popular.

Translate surveys to any number of languages with our handy translation tool.

Decide which questions are mandatory and which are optional.

Save time by reusing and editing your previous surveys to easily maintain data comparability.

Design your survey using any or all of the following: multiple-choice questions (choose one or choose many), open question, Likert scale, slider, date picker, checkbox, number question, and range question.

Our interactive questionnaire builder is easy and fast to use. No coding skills are needed.

Make the webpages and questionnaires an extension of your organization: include your branded colors, logos, and images.

You can ask respondents to authenticate themselves (via email, Google, or Facebook) to answer surveys or submit votes — or use password protection.

Create a QR code or a short link to your Maptionnaire survey or webpage for faster sharing

Manually hide obscene answers and comments.

Include UTM tracking links to understand which outreach channels perform the best.

Hire a panel company to extend your outreach. Maptionnaire’s Panel tracker functionality makes it easy for panel companies to track which respondents have already responded to the survey.

Create multi-language questionnaires and webpages easily by translating yourself or outsourcing to a third party. Minimize errors by translating each element side-by-side.

Maptionnaire provides a user-friendly respondent interface and supports a broad range of devices.

Make social sharing easy to get bigger outreach for your survey and project pages.

Respondents can edit and delete their answers from surveys and pages if they logged in.

Secure user logins within the organization by enabling two-factor authentication.

We host all projects on secure cloud hosting (AWS, Ireland) and provide a unique URL for your project.

Customer and respondent data is treated as highly confidential information. Data is encrypted at rest and during transfer. Application servers and databases make regular encrypted backups with daily, weekly, and monthly retention policies. More information on security and compliance here.

Maptionnaire is fully GDPR-compliant. We also provide you with tools for consent and privacy management to make your surveys and projects compliant with data legislation in the EU and globally. More information on security and compliance here.

Establish secure connections between Maptionnaire and your other software.

After your subscription expires, we retain all your data and projects for 90 days, giving you time to reassess your public engagement needs.

We currently support the following formats: WMTS, WMS, ESRI shapefile, XYZ basemap, GeoJSON, Bing, Mapbox, and WFS.

You can export survey results in different formats, including Excel, shapefile and geoJSON. 

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Improve your service responsiveness by sending map-based feedback directly to your own server in real time.

Use the maps and styles you create in Mapbox in your questionnaires.