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.
Location-based surveys for real-world decisions
Ask the people who are actually there.
Create a question, choose a place — a street, a district, the whole town, or the world — and hear from people who are actually there, before you make a decision that affects them.
Live15 surveys live right now
You don't ask the internet. You ask a place.
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, signs in, confirms their location once, and answers. You can still drop a link or QR code somewhere.
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
Before you make a local decision, ask the people it affects. ortwort is new — no borrowed logos on this page, no inflated numbers. Yours takes about two minutes to draw and write.
Would you visit a specialty coffee shop here at least once a week?
Ravensburg · Marienplatz — r 250 m
A shop owner validating demand before signing a lease.
Should this street become car-free on Saturdays?
Konstanz · Paradies — district polygon
A council asking only the blocks the change touches.
Would you come to a night market here next month?
Lindau · Insel — r 600 m
An organiser measuring interest before booking the square.
Would you use a bike-repair pop-up in this neighbourhood?
Weingarten · Martin-Luther-Platz — r 400 m
Someone testing a local service idea before investing in it.
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.
Your first question is free
Respondents are never paid — payouts invite spoofing and wreck the data you're buying. Try it free, pay once for a real local question, or go Pro if you ask often. No enterprise contract, no calculating anything.
Free
€0
Up to 3 choice questions, any area, public results
- Up to 3 single- or multiple-choice questions — up to 3 live at once
- Circle, region or global targeting
- Any response goal
- Public results · ortwort mark on the page
Local
€15
One-time. Never expires. No subscription.
- One real local question, not a trial
- Up to 250 answers on a circle survey
- Circle, region or global targeting
- Never expires — use it whenever you're ready
Pro
€19 / mo
or €190 / yr. Cancel anytime.
- CSV, JSON & PDF result export
- Private results — hidden from respondents
- No ortwort branding on your surveys
Prices shown before VAT — your country's VAT is added at checkout. Pro starts with a 3-day free trial.
FAQ
No. Anyone can answer with just the location check — one response per device is enforced automatically. Signing in is optional and free (an email link, no password): it makes your answer count across devices instead of just one browser, and lets you appear on the participation leaderboard. Either way, location stays coarse-grained and is never stored as raw coordinates.
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. It's one response per device (or per account, if you sign in), we rate-limit per device and per network, and we 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.
Ask your town something this week
No account needed to answer. Sign in with an email link to ask your own — no password, no card, first draft in minutes.