Open data

What is public, and what is held back

Reports are a public record of the district. The aggregates behind the map and the scorecard are readable by anyone, including researchers and journalists — with two exceptions that exist to protect the people who file them.

Last updated 9 August 2026

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The scorecard — per department: reports on record, sent, acknowledged, resolved, and median response time. Per taluk: volumes and how many were community-verified.
The activity map on the front page — a density grid of where reports are coming from.
Individual reports — each has a permanent public link showing its category, severity, approximate position, timeline and confirmations.

What is deliberately withheld

Precise locations are never published. Public coordinates are rounded to three decimal places — about 110 metres. The exact position exists, because a department needs it to find the problem, but it is stored separately and is not part of any public dataset.

Sparse areas are suppressed entirely. A grid cell with fewer than three reports does not appear on the public map at all. In a district of small villages, "one report in this square" plus a category can identify a household. This is why the map may look empty in quiet areas — the data exists; it is being withheld on purpose.

Also never published: email addresses, precise coordinates, the original unprocessed photograph with its metadata, trust scores, and anything identifying a reporter beyond the public name they chose.

Bulk downloads

There is no CSV or API endpoint yet. It is planned, and it will be built to the same rules as above — aggregates and rounded positions, never the precise record. If you are a researcher or a journalist who needs the data before then, ask through the contact form and say what you are trying to find out.

Using it

Published figures may be reused with attribution to Nada Kodagu. Two requests, neither of them legal conditions, just honesty: say when you pulled the numbers, because reports change status over time; and do not present a report as a verified fact — reports are made by members of the public and some are wrong. Where a report has been community-verified, the platform says so.

Map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors. District boundaries shown are illustrative and are not authoritative for any legal or administrative purpose.