Social Pinpoint (now Social Point, under the Open Point umbrella) is a full engagement hub. If what you actually need is the map — residents marking places, drawing routes, outlining areas, and your team exporting GIS-ready data — Mapsurvey does that job with different economics: free, open source (AGPLv3), and self-hostable, with no quote-gated pricing.
Why teams look for an alternative
Open Point describes its Social Map as pinning a comment on the map and publishes nothing about drawing. In Mapsurvey, people also draw routes and outline areas — essential for mobility, greenways, and land-use input.
Social Map reporting exports GeoJSON beside XLS, CSV and PDF. Mapsurvey adds GeoPackage, Shapefile and KML, so the layer opens in QGIS or ArcGIS without a conversion step.
No quotes. Open Point prices by request after a solutions team reviews your project — Mapsurvey is free hosted or self-hosted, with one published price for Pro.
Open Point's public pages do not state how many languages a survey can run in. Mapsurvey ships survey-content translation for 75 languages, free.
Side by side
This page is one entry in our guide to participatory mapping tools; the cells below and the guide's table come from the same sourced facts. "Social Pinpoint" became "Social Point" under the Open Point umbrella in 2026.
| Mapsurvey | Open Point (Social Pinpoint) | |
|---|---|---|
| What respondents can draw | Points, lines and polygons, each with follow-up questions | Pin a comment on the map; line or polygon drawing not published |
| Export formats | GeoJSON, GeoPackage, Shapefile, KML, CSV and Excel | XLS, CSV, PDF or GeoJSON from Social Map reporting |
| Open source / self-hosting | Yes, AGPLv3; Docker stack on your own servers | No; proprietary SaaS |
| Hosting region and GDPR posture | Hosted in the United States (Render, Oregon); self-host anywhere for EU residency; no formal accessibility audit yet | AWS, 'in the nominated country and data centre you live in'; WCAG target level AA, VPAT for WCAG 2.2 on request |
| Pricing model | Published: free, or one flat workspace price | By request: a solutions team reviews the project first |
| Free tier or trial | Free plan, unlimited surveys and responses, no time limit | Not published |
| Public results page | Yes, a public results page per survey, no account needed | Contributions shown publicly on the map; voting in five modes |
| How you start | Self-serve sign-up; the developer answers questions directly | Book a demo |
| Languages | 75, translation included | Not published |
| Engagement-hub extras (forums, voting, budgeting) | No; focused on map surveys | Yes: a wide suite of tools, with voting on map contributions in five modes |
Open Point (Social Pinpoint) details come from the vendor's public pages, read on 2026-10-06: openpoint.com, learn.socialpinpoint.com, learn.socialpinpoint.com, openpoint.com, learn.socialpinpoint.com. 'Not published' means the page we read does not say; verify current specifics with the vendor. We publish no other vendor's price: the model, the trial and where a rate is listed, nothing more. Every tool in this category on one table.
Being fair
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