1. A neighbour pins the truth
Heat, a planting, water stress, care, or wildlife — with GPS and a photo taken at the place.
Community mapping for cooler streets
Turn what neighbours see into shade that lasts
Mupolink is how South African wards grow cooler streets: residents map heat, trees, water, and care. Planners act on the same evidence — and the person who mapped it hears back.
What the platform maps
Every pin is a place, a photo, and GPS — evidence a planner can visit.
Heat hotspotsPavements, taxi ranks, school gates, and clinic queues with no shade.Planted treesTrees that exist in the ground — not intentions — so canopy can be counted.Water stressDry pits, wilting trees, or flooding that puts a planting at risk.Tree careSick, damaged, leaning, or hazardous trees that need a visit.WildlifeSightings that show street trees becoming habitat — from a safe distance.
For neighbours
Map your street in the app or the browser
Stand at the spot. Allow location. Photograph the tree, the hot surface, or the dry soil — not a screenshot of a map. Choose indigenous species before you plant. Report care without climbing or crowding wildlife. Points and badges thank you; they are not a race.
Home, Map, Add, Care, and You are the whole community app. Built for South African wards, with language you can set.
Open the community appFor organisations
Give parks, wards, and NGOs a desk that can act
The organisation portal at org.mupolink.com is for municipal parks teams, ward planners, climate and resilience staff, greening NGOs, and estates. A city admin grants access and ward scope. Planners see pending reports, survival risk, and recent heat — then acknowledge or resolve so the mapper is notified.
Urgency ranking, a ward map with layers, weekly digest, and a short daily briefing turn community activity into something you can take to a meeting or a funder.
Request planner accessHow the loop works
Mupolink is the operating layer between the street and the office.
2. The ward becomes visible
The map stacks those pins. Heat layers show where streets bake and where canopy is missing.
3. A planner triages
Aged and hazardous reports rise in the queue. Survival watchlists flag trees that need water.
4. The mapper hears back
Status updates when a report is acknowledged or resolved. Field and office stay in sync.
Mission
A city's canopy is only as strong as the follow-up behind it
Greening programmes fail quietly. Plantings go unwatered. Hazards sit unanswered. Community effort never reaches the people who can act. Mupolink exists to close that loop — so shade lands where people actually walk, wait, and queue, and so every honest pin can become a decision.
We focus on South African cities and wards: local species, local languages, and workflows that fit municipal planning rather than generic pin collection.
Who it is for
Questions
- What is Mupolink?A community mapping and planning platform. Residents log heat hotspots, planting sites, tree-care needs, water stress, and wildlife. Organisations triage that evidence to grow cooler streets.
- How do people contribute?Use the Android app or the web app. Stand at the place, capture GPS, add a clear photo, and submit. An admin does not have to approve you to map as a neighbour.
- Who uses the organisation portal?City administrators and ward planners. After you request access, an admin grants a role and ward scope. Until then the community app is still available.
- Do mappers hear back?Yes. When a planner acknowledges or resolves a report, the status updates and the mapper is notified — that is the loop the mission depends on.
Start with one honest pin this week
A tree you know, a street that feels too hot, or a report a planner can visit. That is how a ward becomes visible.