Export a chat from the app (WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal) and visualize the locations shared in the conversation.
It was developed to help emergency services and humanitarian organizations to get locations from people in the field during disasters and emergencies, but it can be used for anything else.
Try it here! chatmap.hotosm.org
yarn install
yarn startCreate a group and ask people to post a locations and messages. Each location will be paired with the closest message from the same user.
- Export a WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal chat with shared locations
- Upload a .zip file to this page
- It will extract all the locations and display them on a map, together with the paired message (text or media)
- You can also download the locations + messages as a .zip file from there
Check docs for each instant messaging app here.
Login into umap.hotosm.org, click "Upload" and upload the .zip !
| Status | Feature |
|---|---|
| ✅ | Support multiple instant messaging apps (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal) |
| ✅ | Support video |
| ✅ | Download a .zip file with GeoJSON and images to save the map in umap.hotosm.org |
| ⚙️ | Include videos in .zip download |
| ⚙️ | Attach both image and text to a location |
| Add tests | |
| Support audio |
Copyright 2024 Emilio Mariscal
This is free software! you may use this project under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3.