Frequently Asked Questions

GeoMarqr is a geotagged photo reporting tool. You take a photo of something that needs to be seen — a road hazard, a blocked drain, site conditions before a job starts — and GeoMarqr pins it to the map at the exact location the photo was taken. No account required. Reports disappear after five days.

Anyone who sees something and needs the right people to know about it. Motorhomers and road trippers reporting hazards. HIAB and crane crews documenting job sites. Councils collecting community infrastructure data. Insurance teams gathering independent pre-cleanup evidence. Emergency managers building a community reporting layer. Police. Civil Defence. Waka Kotahi.

GeoMarqr works anywhere in the world — the offline-first GPS tagging isn't region-specific. The product is built for and focused on New Zealand use cases, and the LowCode NZ integration is an NZ partnership. But the app itself has no geographic restriction.

When you take a photo, GeoMarqr captures your GPS coordinates at that moment — regardless of whether you have cell coverage. The photo and its location data are stored on your device. The moment your phone reconnects (even hours later, even somewhere completely different), GeoMarqr uploads the photo and pins it to the location where it was taken. The pin is always accurate to where you stood.

The report stays on your device until it uploads. There's no time limit for the upload — it just waits until connectivity is available. Once uploaded, the five-day countdown starts from the moment you took the photo, not from when it uploaded.

As accurate as your device's GPS — typically within a few metres on a modern smartphone. Crucially, it's accurate to where you were when you took the photo, not where you were when it uploaded. In a blackout or dead zone, that distinction matters.

Yes. The free tier requires no account and no identifying information. You take a photo and it goes on the map. Nothing ties it back to you. The account and pro tiers add features that require an account, but basic reporting is always anonymous.

Reports are visible on the public map. Anyone using GeoMarqr can see what's been Marqed in a given area. There are no private reports in the free tier — that's by design. The goal is community situational awareness.

Because most hazards are temporary. A flooded crossing, a slip, gravel on the road — these resolve. A report that outlives the hazard creates noise and erodes trust in the map. Five days is long enough to matter to the people behind you; short enough that the map stays accurate.

From the public map, yes — after five days a report is no longer visible to anyone browsing the map. The photo itself is retained on our servers so that account holders can still access their own upload history, and Pro tier users can query anonymised historical data across all reports for analytics and data collection. If you reported anonymously on the free tier, your photo is removed from the map and is not linked to any account.

Unlimited anonymous photo reporting. Offline-first capture. The report goes on the public map. No account required. No limits on how many reports you submit. Always free.

Creating a free account lets you review your own documentation history — every photo you've Marqed, when you took it, and where. Useful for field teams, insurance adjusters, and anyone who needs a personal record of what they reported. Still free, still ad-supported.

Everything in Free Account, plus date-range filtering on the map — view the last 12 hours, the last day, the full five days, or a custom date range. Handy for cutting noise: a first responder wants to see what's happened in the last hour, not five days of accumulated reports. Travellers can filter to what's current on the road ahead. Also includes NSFW content filters and removes all ads.

The ability to keep reports private — visible only within your organisation, not on the public map. Built for HIAB operators, crane crews, and anyone documenting job sites or sensitive locations that shouldn't be publicly visible. Your team sees everything; the public sees nothing.

Full API access and direct database querying across anonymised historical report data. Feed GeoMarqr data into your own analytics pipelines, dashboards, or enterprise platforms like RapidMiner. Designed for councils, insurance CAT teams, Waka Kotahi, and data-driven organisations who need GeoMarqr as a live data layer — not just a map.

LowCode NZ is a New Zealand technology company — same founding team as GeoMarqr — and a Siemens partner. They specialise in connecting data sources to enterprise analytics platforms, including RapidMiner.

RapidMiner is an enterprise data science and analytics platform — part of the Siemens ecosystem. It's used by councils, insurance companies, and infrastructure organisations for predictive modelling, pattern analysis, and operational intelligence. LowCode NZ connects your GeoMarqr data to RapidMiner so your analysts can query, model, and visualise it without custom development.

No. LowCode NZ is an optional integration for organisations that want to feed GeoMarqr data into enterprise analytics platforms. The free, account, and pro tiers all work independently. LowCode NZ is relevant for councils, insurance teams, and Waka Kotahi who need a data pipeline — not for individual users.

GeoMarqr is coming to the App Store and Google Play. Drop your email at the download link and we'll notify you when it's live.

Yes. GeoMarqr is being built for both iOS and Android. The offline-first GPS tagging works the same on both platforms.

Email us at hi@geomarqr.com or use the contact link in the nav. We're a small team and we respond fast.