Mor Haritam (Purple Map)

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Most city maps record what is there. Ankara's Purple Map records where women do not feel safe — they mark it themselves, and then follow what the municipality did about it.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure

what does this mean?

The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →

Run byAnkara Büyükşehir Belediyesi, with UN Women and TESEV

Scale🏙️ City-wide

FundingFunded by Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), via UN Women

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 6 more in Ankara · 🗳️ Citizen participation guide · 👥 Society projects

Mor Haritam is a geographic layer for women's use of Ankara, built by the municipality with UN Women and the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) and funded by Sweden through SIDA. It locates women's counselling centres, creches, child activity centres, family life centres and ŞÖNİM violence prevention and monitoring centres, and adds a reporting button through which users mark places where they do not feel safe, then track what was done in response. It runs on an ArcGIS front end at morharitam.ankara.bel.tr and as a mobile app. The municipality's own project page records the project status as completed, while the tool itself was relaunched in July 2026 with rebuilt infrastructure and new accessibility modes.

Live 📅 since 2021

🎓 Lesson

Safety mapping usually means putting crime statistics on a basemap, which records what the police recorded. Asking residents to mark the places that make them avoid a route measures something the incident data cannot: the fear that changes behaviour before anything is reported. It also inherits the reporting-bias problem of every citizen-reporting system — the map shows where women chose to report, not where risk is.

👥 Society Citizen participation Safety & security Public space

Sources

↗ UN Women Türkiye (partner) — launch, 29 March 2021Establishes purpose, partners and funding: "The Purple Map is implemented in partnership with Ankara Metropolitan Municipality and Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation and funded by Sweden through Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency." Describes identification of "specific locations and physical spaces in the city that require improvement" and the feedback function. Partner source, not an independent evaluation.

↗ Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi (operator) — project page"Mor Haritam üzerinden kadınlarımızdan aldığımız geri bildirimler sayesinde Ankara'daki güvensiz ve riskli bölgeleri tespit ediyoruz." Lists project status as "Tamamlandı" (completed) — the funded programme, not the tool, which is still running.

↗ Mor Haritam (operator) — the applicationLive, checked directly (HTTP 200). ArcGIS JS 4.25 single-page app; content is client-rendered so the map layers could not be enumerated server-side.

↗ CUMHA (press) — relaunch, 5 July 2026Confirms the tool is current, not defunct: relaunched with renewed features and strengthened infrastructure; users "kendilerini güvende hissetmedikleri yerleri bize bildirecekler". Describes the app as award-winning without naming the award — the award claim is therefore not repeated in this entry.

↗ Gazete Duvar (press) — Menekşe Tokyay, 'Mor Haritam: En çok başvuru en yoksul ilçelerden'⚠ NOT VERIFIED BY FETCH — the page returned HTTP 403 to every attempt and the TKDF mirror failed DNS. Search surfacing of this article twice reports: 196 reports submitted; most reports from Mamak and Yenimahalle (Mamak described as Ankara's second-poorest district); lighting installed on 102 streets with EnerjiSA in response, concentrated around the Birlik/Mamak boundary. Those figures are deliberately NOT used in the snippet, impact or teaser and this entry carries no impact field because of it. If an editor can retrieve the article, this is the reporting-bias evidence that would make the entry a strong spoke for the 'who-complains' pillar.

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🇹🇭 Traffy Fondue: Bangkok's LINE-Based Problem Reporting · Bangkok Both let residents pin a place and follow what happened; Traffy Fondue reports potholes, Mor Haritam reports where women do not feel safe. 🇧🇪 FixMyStreet Brussels · Brussels Map-based citizen reporting, one for street defects and one for a hazard the street layout does not record. 🇹🇷 Başkent 153 Citizen Request Line · Ankara Same city, two intakes: the general request line, and a targeted layer for a group whose reports the general line does not distinguish.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Mor Haritam (Purple Map)” — Ankara, Turkey. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/ankara-mor-haritam/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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