Platform Features

Respondents can answer your questions by placing points or drawing lines and polygons on a map. The response data includes coordinates, making it easy to export to GIS software or analyze directly in Maptionnaire.

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Gather a whole new class of detailed, place-based information by asking follow-up questions that pop up after respondents draw a point, line, or area on the map.

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

If respondent-made map markings aren’t necessary for your project, you can reduce response time by letting them select from predefined points, lines, areas, or grids on the map. You can also upload your own shapefile with the desired locations.

Dive deeper into specific locations. Clickable map elements open a pop-up window where respondents can view more information and answer questions tailored to that location.

Let respondents choose their favorite development ideas and place them on the map while staying within a set budget or quota. If you’re interested in running a participatory budgeting project, we offer a dedicated solution for you.

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Enable commenting on predefined map features to inspire residents and stakeholders to share their thoughts about specific areas, places, or plan features with each other.

Allow respondents to view what others marked on the map. This can help them gain a better understanding of their community's priorities and share more informed insights.

Use our built-in selection of beautiful system basemaps or upload your own basemaps (in WMTS, WMS, WFS, ESRI vector tile service, or GeoTIFF). You can also draw a quick map overlay in Maptionnaire or use your own overlays (in GeoJSON or shapefile). For advanced use, you can also integrate Maptionnaire survey data with your map services.

Allow commenting on illustrative plans, renderings, and other images by easily uploading an image to use as an interactive background in a questionnaire.

Easily assign coordinates to any image file. Get the functionality of an interactive map while presenting your own floor plans, campus maps, and illustrative plans.

Direct respondents to different locations based on their answers, such as a zip code, to provide a more personalized participation experience.

Build a webpage to communicate about one or multiple projects with a simple drag-and-drop editor that supports multiple file formats and reflects your branding.

Consolidate questionnaires, project pages, timelines, results, and discussions on one page to ensure transparency in your initiatives.

When managing multiple initiatives in the same area, it’s helpful to have easily navigated, dedicated pages for each project, with their own background information, timelines, discussions, and results. These pages can be easily linked from the main landing page, creating a central hub where the public can find all initiatives.

Integrate interactive maps, questionnaires, and polls into your project pages, allowing users to access all project information and participate seamlessly in one place.

Feature all the project stages on a visual timeline to track dates and deadlines, increasing transparency. It can be added to any project page.

Effectively communicate your findings and close the feedback loop by showing participants how their input shapes the project. With just a few clicks, streamline your workflow by adding selected result charts and thematic maps from a linked questionnaire to create a customizable, shareable webpage.

Create an engaging and informative narrative with surveys, maps and plans, images, text, videos, and PDFs to showcase your project to residents and stakeholders.

Enable open discussions between community members, stakeholders, and planners on project pages for registered visitors.

Easily create multiple language versions of your pages in any language. When a visitor selects a language, embedded surveys and sub-pages are automatically displayed in their chosen language.

Create a QR code or a short link to your Maptionnaire survey or webpage for easy multi-channel access.

Easily share your survey and page links to get bigger outreach for your survey and project pages.

Manually hide inappropriate answers and comments. 

You can ask respondents to authenticate themselves via email, Google, or Facebook to answer surveys or submit votes.

Understand 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.

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

If you hire a panel company to extend your outreach, Maptionnaire’s panel tracker functionality makes it easy for them to track which respondents have already responded to the survey.

Make your pages and questionnaires feel like a natural extension of your or your client’s brand by incorporating custom colors, logos, and images throughout the participation journey.

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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 US, EU and globally. More information on security and compliance here.

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.

We host projects on a secure cloud platform (AWS, primarily Ireland) and provide a unique URL for each project. Upon request, we can set up other location-specific hosting—for example, we have Canadian hosting available.

You can enable two-factor authentication for secure user logins within your organization.

Registered respondents can edit and delete their answers from surveys and pages.

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

Users can log in easily and securely with single sign-on (SSO) using their Google or Facebook accounts.