A warning is a chain of people, and every link is on the map.
This is the whole thing, in order, in plain words: where the information comes from, who is allowed to say it is true, how it reaches your phone, and what happens in the days after.
Where a warning begins
A city floods from rain that fell an hour away, so the first link is upstream. Solar stations on the bridges and culverts read the water level every few minutes and send it over a radio mesh that keeps working when the phone masts do not.
For fire, crime, waste and weather there are no sensors. There are residents with phones, and there is the news. A report needs a photo, a place and a few plain words. A news story is read by the platform, placed on the map inside an honest ring of uncertainty, and held until somebody checks it.
The people who check
Nothing is drawn on the public map until it has been verified. The agency responsible for that service, inside its own area, sees every report for it first. Where no agency is onboarded yet the platform's own reviewers do the work, and the pin says so plainly rather than borrowing authority it does not have. Neighbours matter too: a few people pressing Confirm on a pin they can see move it faster than the same number of separate reports ever could.
Who answers is stated, never implied.
The model helps, and is labelled as help. It merges one event reported by three outlets, resolves a place name to a street, and estimates where the water goes next — always marked as an estimate, never as a fact.
Report an issue →The map
The home page is the whole network at once. Pins are verified incidents, coloured by service. A cluster is pins too close together to draw apart. A soft ring means the exact spot is uncertain. Stations turn amber, then red, as the water rises, and a faded pin is something already resolved.
Tap anything and you get the category, who verified it, how long ago, and a Confirm button if you are standing in front of it. The time bar above the map is the same map at another hour — the last few hours, yesterday, the week. Nothing is hidden; it is filtered.
Open the live map →How it reaches you
Alerts are for places, not accounts. Save home, work and the school, and you are told when a verified incident or a forecast touches them: a push notification first, then email or Telegram if you have linked them and the phone stays silent.
The card carries your household plan and the emergency number with it, so the page you would have had no time to look for is already open.
Check this device →Your family
SafeNet is the same alerts, for the people you watch over: a child's phone, a parent, the family car. Each one is added with consent and shares only what both sides agreed to. Zones have hours. A share you gave for one journey expires on the day you set.
Those alerts ride through silent mode, on purpose.SafeNet →
What you do next
The warning is the easy part. Your community's check-in asks for one tap — fine, or need help — and shows the people leading it who has not answered yet. Volunteers whose skills, radius and hours match are paged with one question: can you go?
Local resources show the nearest shelter, clinic and fire station with directions. And the learning centre is ten things, each with a short lesson, that make all of this land when it matters: the plan, the go bag, the numbers.
How prepared are you? →The week after
Every flood has a drain behind it. A community's issues list turns one complaint into a cluster: reported, supported by neighbours, queued for the assembly, and you are told when it is resolved.
The stories feed keeps the record of what happened and what was done about it. The next rainy season starts with the gutter that was cleared in March.
Read the stories →United States specifics coming soon
Local emergency numbers, agencies and preparedness guidance for United States are added as the country onboards. Everything above — reporting, verification, alerts, SafeNet — already works here.