Swansea pilot

The one with a place for everyone

Get outside, be active and have fun, whatever the weather.

It's for everyone, and we're building it with families of children with additional needs in mind. What a place has, and what you need from it, matter more than labels.

We're starting with playgrounds in Swansea, close to home. Parks, beaches and paths come later.

See the app working

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The one with a place to go

Search for a place, then see what's at each playground.

Each playground shows what it has, what it doesn't have, and what nobody's checked yet. The facts come from OpenStreetMap. Every map task also works as a plain list.

Try the early preview (Swansea only)

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The one with the longer walk

Close on the map can mean a longer walk, so we measure the walk.

For every playground, we work out the shortest walking route to the nearest toilets, parking and café. We use mapped paths and roads, not a straight line.

The stars count what's close: toilets, parking and cafés, with a bonus for a Changing Places toilet. More stars mean more of them are a shorter walk away. The stars are not a verdict on a place, and they say nothing about what you need.

If a toilet is not mapped, it counts as not mapped yet. It does not mean there isn't one.

We also work out step-free and wheelchair routes for each playground. The app doesn't show them yet.

Routes are worked out from the map. They haven't been checked on the ground.

Routes from openrouteservice.org. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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The one with the stickers

Collect a sticker each time you visit.

You get a sticker for your first visit and one for each season. Stickers can overlap, and you can move them again. There are no leaderboards, and a nearby playground counts as much as a faraway one.

You tap to collect. The app never tracks where you go. In the preview, your stickers stay on this device only. Saving them to a grown-up's account isn't built yet.

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The one with more to come

Weather

A note about the weather for the area, such as "showers likely this afternoon", from ECMWF open data. Forecasts change, and a good forecast never means a place is safe.

Rainy-day stickers

Stickers for ordinary drizzle, once the weather is in the app. Never for storms or weather warnings.

Saving your stickers

A grown-up account to keep stickers safe, with a child added by a name the grown-up picks. Your needs stay on your device.