ChatMap
ChatMap is a super-accesible tool for mapping with chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal
Nearly 3.5 billion people throughout the world already use an instant messaging app for communications on a routine basis, many of them in high vulnerability locations. What if communities could just simply and easily utilize the existing apps for mapping?
ChatMap is a web tool that converts chats to maps. Designed for everyone, requires no complex integrations or trainings, making it accessible and effective for those in need, immediately. Relying on the GPS signal, it also works offline.
Low Barrier to Entry
Create a chat group and ask people to share locations and messages
Chat-based
Map while chat, adding easy support and moderation
Works Offline
Works in low-connectivity situations, like disasters.
Why ChatMap?
This is the ideal tool for working with non-tech savvy people, or when you don’t have the time or capability to run trainings.
As easy as it sounds, ChatMap is available right now for everyone.
Once the chats are uploaded to the ChatMap application, the tool processes this data to extract the relevant locations, text and media and displays it on a map.
Links
ChatMap News
Discover the collaborative live WhatsApp mapping strategy helping Siviru face coastal erosion and tsunami risk
Mapping Through the Storm: How Dominica's Office of Disaster Management Responded to the April 2026 Trough System
How ChatMap Turned WhatsApp Messages into Emergency Maps During Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica
