Mupolink is a community mapping and planning platform that helps South African cities and wards use heat hotspots, planting sites, tree care reports, water stress, and wildlife sightings to grow cooler streets — and to close the loop with the person who mapped it.

Who uses the Mupolink organisation portal?

City administrators and ward planners use the organisation portal to review community submissions, prioritise interventions, and manage planner access.

How do community members contribute?

Residents use the Mupolink Android app to map heat, plant trees, report tree care needs, and flag water stress in their wards.

Grow cooler streets

Powering wards, parks teams, and greening programmes. Neighbours map the street. Organisations triage the evidence — and the mapper hears back.

Start mapping Plant a tree

Heat

Pin hot streets and shade gaps neighbours feel every summer.

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Everything neighbours can report

Every pin is a place, a photo, and GPS — evidence a planner can visit.

Heat hotspotsPavements, taxi ranks, school gates, and clinic queues with no shade.

PlantingsTrees that exist in the ground — not intentions — so canopy can be counted.

Water stressVery dry pits, wilting plantings, or flooding that puts a tree at risk.

WildlifeSightings that show street trees becoming habitat — from a safe distance.

Tree careSick, damaged, leaning, or hazardous trees that need a visit.

Illegal dumpingFly-tipping and dumped waste in parks, open land, and street verges.

Environmental degradationSoil erosion, pollution, clearing, and other site damage.

Biodiversity threatThreats to habitats or wildlife corridors that need urgent attention.

Invasive speciesAlien or invasive plants and infestations before they spread.

Damaged natural areaTrampling, fire damage, vandalism, or harm to green infrastructure.

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How the loop works

From the street to the desk — and back to the person who mapped it.

01
Detect
A neighbour pins heat, a planting, water stress, wildlife, tree care, dumping, invasives, or site damage.
02
Triage
The ward map stacks evidence. Aged and hazardous reports rise.
03
Act
Planners acknowledge, water, prune, or resolve in their queue.
04
Measure
The mapper hears back. Survival and shade become visible over time.

Mission

A city's canopy is only as strong as the follow-up behind it

Greening programmes fail quietly. Plantings go unwatered. Hazards sit unanswered. Mupolink closes that loop — so shade lands where people walk, wait, and queue.

Start with one honest pin

A tree you know, a street that feels too hot, or a report a planner can visit.

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Grow cooler streets

Detect

Triage

Act

Measure

A city's canopy is only as strong as the follow-up behind it

Start with one honest pin