Target
Draw the target
Drop a pin and a radius, trace a district by hand, or switch to global. PostGIS decides who counts as inside — down to the metre.
Local surveys, pinned to a place on the map
Put a question on the map. Let the neighbourhood answer.
Draw a circle around a street, a district, or the whole town — or ask the world. People who are actually there answer in fifteen seconds and see the result on the spot.
From idea to live in a couple of minutes
The friction is deliberately on the person asking, never on the person answering.
Questions
Write your questions
Single choice, multiple choice, a 1–5 scale, or short text. The first three come with the survey; add more for a credit each. Keep it answerable while waiting for a tram.
Reach
People in the area find it
Anyone inside the target sees it on ortwort, confirms their location once, and answers anonymously. You can still drop a link or QR code somewhere, but you shouldn't need to.
Results
Watch it fill up
Live counts and percentages. Answers show as coarse ~1.2 km map cells, never as points, and cells with under five answers stay hidden.
Questions worth asking a place
ortwort is new — no borrowed logos on this page, no inflated numbers. What it's for looks like this. Yours takes about two minutes to draw and write.
Should a döner shop open on this corner? Would you eat there?
Ravensburg · Marienplatz — r 250 m
A shop owner testing demand before signing a lease.
Make this street one-way?
Konstanz · Paradies — district polygon
A council asking only the blocks the change touches.
Best place for breakfast around here?
Lindau · Insel — r 600 m
Someone visiting next week, asking people who live there.
Open around the world right now
Spin the globe. Tap a marker to open the survey — prove you're inside the area to answer, or answer a global one from anywhere.
- Should Marienplatz stay car-free on Saturdays?
- Best spot for breakfast near the Basilika?
- Night ferry Friedrichshafen–Konstanz: would you use it?
- Kiezblock on your street: yes or no?
- Is short-term rental pushing you out of your bairro?
- Do you trust local government more than five years ago?
Example surveys — the globe fills with real ones as they go live.
Only the person asking pays
Respondents are never paid — payouts invite spoofing and wreck the data. Credits pay to publish: 25 answers per credit, a bit more for a tight circle, a global question is the cheapest on the menu. Pro adds the tooling — export and private results — for people who run surveys often.
Free
€0
One small circle, up to 50 answers
- One small circle survey
- Up to 50 answers
- Public results only
- ortwort mark on the page
Credits
from €0.60 / credit
One-off. Pay to publish. Never expire.
- 25 answers per credit — volume discounts
- Circle, region or global targeting
- Credits never expire
- Live results + participation analytics
Pro
€19 / mo
or €190 / yr. Cancel anytime.
- CSV, JSON & PDF result export
- Private results — hidden from respondents
- No ortwort branding on your surveys
FAQ
No. The only step is granting the browser location permission once. There are no respondent profiles, which is also why there's much less personal data to protect.
The browser reports coordinates with high accuracy. The server checks them against the target with PostGIS, rejects anything less accurate than 1 km, then throws the raw coordinates away and keeps only a coarse ~1.2 km cell and the country.
It's possible with effort. We rate-limit per device and per network, allow one response per device per survey, and cross-check GPS country against network country. We call results "indicative local sentiment", not a representative sample.
Only the creator pays. One-off credits pay to publish a survey; an optional Pro subscription adds result export and private results. Respondents are never paid, because payouts attract spoofing and wreck the data the creator is buying.
In the EU (Frankfurt). Location is treated as personal data: minimised, coarse-grained, and never stored as raw coordinates.
Three questions come with every survey. You can add more — a credit each — but if a survey needs a reward to get answered, it's already too long.
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