Promoted articles
- What's new in Maptionnaire? Updated 9/2026
- Create a new survey (Quick guide)
- Build a project website (Project Pages)
- Show questions based on previous answers (Branching logic)
- Ask and inform about specific map locations (Pop-up map)
- Send map response data to ArcGIS Online or QGIS (API key)
- Test version vs final version: what changes when you publish
- Edit, extend, close or reopen a published survey
- Respondents report a problem? Common causes and fixes
- How many responses did my survey receive? (Visitors, respondents and submitted)
- AI tools in Maptionnaire: overview
Knowledge base
Get started
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Log in
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Quick guides
- ★ Create a new survey (Quick guide)
- ★ Build a project website (Project Pages)
- Set up map elements in your survey (Quick guide)
- Generate a Survey Draft Using AI
- Checklist for survey launch
- View and explore response data (quick guide to the analysis tool)
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Project guides and inspiration
- Present different options for public feedback (Public engagement, stage 3 of 5)
- Communicate the plan and share information (Public engagement, stage 2 of 5)
- Analyze results and prepare them for display (Public engagement, stage 4 of 5)
- Gather background information (Public engagement, stage 1 of 5)
- Mobility and transport planning surveys
- Maptionnaire as part of a hybrid engagement strategy
Build a survey
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Create and manage surveys
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Question types
- Multiple choice grid (Likert/matrix)
- Images as answer options
- Respondent uploads a file or submits an audio/video message (File upload)
- Add a multiple-choice question (Choose multiple)
- Add a single-choice question (Choose one)
- Collect written feedback (Open question)
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Voting, ranking and budgeting
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Branching and survey logic
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Text, images and styling
- Upload maps, images, GIFs and other materials
- Style your survey (Style templates)
- Use image as survey background
- Headings, text and text effects
- Add your logo and brand colors (Brand identity)
- Add images to the survey form
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Translate your survey
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Survey design tips
- 5 steps to mobile-friendly surveys
- Best practices of questionnaire design
- Guidelines for building easy and clear map surveys
- Keep map and standard questions in one survey: why and how
- What makes a good survey? Insights from a study of 216 surveys
- Design surveys that make planning documents easy to understand
Maps and GIS data
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Map questions
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Set up the map view
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Add your own map data
- Upload spatial data to Maptionnaire (Quick guide)
- GIS data checklist: formats, coordinate systems and file sizes
- Add XYZ tile layers to your map
- Create a map layer with points, lines, areas or grid cells
- Display an image overlay on the map (Georeference/GeoTIFF)
- Shapefiles (.shp)
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Work with ArcGIS and QGIS
- ★ Send map response data to ArcGIS Online or QGIS (API key)
- Maptionnaire and ArcGIS: overview
- Projecting map data
- Add Esri Vector Tile layers to your map (Vector Tile Service)
- Import .json and .xlsx files to ArcGIS
- Cleaning up and selecting Maptionnaire data in ArcGIS
Publish and collect responses
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Test and publish
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Edit, close or reopen a published survey
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Share your survey
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Respondents and data quality
- ★ Respondents report a problem? Common causes and fixes
- Prevent automated spam responses (Bot detection)
- Moderate public responses
- Allow only one respondent per device+browser
- If respondents use the same device (session reset/reset link)
- Survey respondent user accounts
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Track respondent sources
Analyze results
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Analysis tool basics
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Charts, filters and crosstabs
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Map responses
- View map point, line and area responses
- Analyze Pop-up map or Select map responses
- Create a heatmap
- Style map responses based on answer values (Conditional styling)
- Generate charts based on selected map responses (Spatial filters)
- Create a map legend to go with the maps you create in the analysis tool
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Open text and AI analysis
- ★ AI tools in Maptionnaire: overview
- Use AI to summarize survey responses
- Analysis of open text questions
- Analyze open text responses with AI
- Generate a survey results report using AI
- Tag open responses with AI
Share and export results
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Export data
- Export response data
- Export full map response data (geojson, shp, text)
- Download charts in a Word file (.docx)
- Download full survey results as an Excel (.xlsx) file
- How to create charts and tables in Excel
- Export survey data and take it to an AI platform (txt export)
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Share results with others
Project Pages
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Build a Project Page
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Branding and settings
Team, security and accessibility
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Team members and roles
- Move a survey to another subgroup, team or organisation (and renaming teams)
- Add team members to your organization (Invite members)
- Admin and Producer roles
- How can I control what team members can see or do? (Subgroups)
- Organize project materials with tagging
- Delete surveys and pages (+any data)
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Login security (SSO, 2FA)
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Subscription and plans
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Privacy and data protection
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Accessibility and requirements