Free map-based surveys for student fieldwork. Your class collects geographic data right in the browser — dropping pins, drawing routes, outlining areas — no GIS software and no coding. It's Google Forms for geodata: perfect for a walkability audit, an accessibility study, or any participatory-mapping assignment.
Why it fits a course
Students open a link, mark places on a map, and submit. Nothing to install, works on the phone they already have.
Each student builds their own survey and gathers real responses — so they learn survey design and spatial data, not just how to answer a form.
Export points, lines, and polygons as GeoJSON plus a CSV — ready for QGIS or a report, straight from the browser.
Free to use for classroom projects, open-source, and self-hostable if your department prefers.
In the classroom
In a recent term, an urban-planning department used Mapsurvey for a semester field-study assignment. Student groups each designed their own map survey — walkability, sidewalk accessibility, pedestrian safety, campus "blind spots" — and collected responses across their city, entirely in the browser.
Assignment ideas