CanteenBlock 4
Post it
PLATE I
Post it in two taps
Pick from a short list and it’s up. No form.
What’s open, busy or flooded, right now. A live map of your campus and neighbourhood, written by the people standing there. Everything expires on its own.
UTech · UWI Mona · Kingston
Know before you walk over.
Free on iPhone and Android. Post what you see in two taps.
Registered with the Companies Office of JamaicaPayments by DimeVerified by the UTech Students’ UnionEvery business claim checked by a person
01How it works
Someone sees it. Everyone nearby knows. Then it’s gone.
Someone there puts it on the map in a tap. People nearby see it first. It leaves once it can’t be true.
Busyjust now
Canteen is busy
PLATE II
Know before you make the walk
Anyone looking at that stretch sees it, on the open map or in your group.
CanteenLong queue
PLATE III
Nothing stale left behind
Every report has a lifespan. Nobody deletes it, so what’s left is true.
Tap a plate to watch it.
02The map
Five things, added by whoever was standing there.
Other maps know where the buildings are. Not that the third floor is quiet after six.
No. 1
Know the way in, not just the buildingPins
Bathrooms, food, pharmacies, study spaces. Each says the building, the floor and how to get in. Bathroom · Block 1 · 2nd floor · Up the north stairs, first door on the left.
No. 2
See what’s true this afternoonReports
The lift, the queue, the empty ATM. Gone by tomorrow. Lift out of service · Block 2 · 18 min ago · Confirmed
No. 3
Hear about the flood before you’re in itArea alerts
Flooding, an outage, a closed road, drawn over the stretch it affects. Flooding · Old Hope Road · 500 m, this neighbourhood
No. 4
See who’s going, find it on the dayEvents
RSVP, see who’s coming, find it on the day. Sep 28 · Live · Study session for finals · Studio 1 · 24 going
No. 5
Know it’s a clean oneReviews
A rating and a sentence: not just a bathroom, a clean one. @tash ★★★★★ Patties fresh at noon, gone by one.
Students
Quiet study spots, sockets, the unlocked door.
Locals
The outage, the water lock-off, the blocked road.
Private groups
A flat, a class, a crew: its own pins, seen by no one outside.
03The app
The app, screen by screen.
The eight App Store screens, from live map to party door.
04Status
Where it is, and what it’s like right now.
A pin says a place exists. A status says what it’s like this minute.
- Busy means one thing everywhere. Statuses are picked, never typed.
- One tap on the way past. That’s why people set them.
- It expires too. A gone queue doesn’t linger.
How busy it is
QuietModerateBusyPacked
The canteen
OpenCrowdedSlow serviceOut of stock
The ATM
Out of cashLong queueCard onlyWorking again
Getting in
Elevator outRamp blockedDoor issue
Campus mode · UTech, every building traced
05Campus
Your timetable says 47A1. The map knows where that is.
At UTech, type a room code and Cite walks you there.
Building 47, 1st floor (ground), room 1 · works offline
- Only your grounds. UTech or UWI Mona, traced from real outlines.
- Works with no signal. Routes are worked out on your phone.
Mona numbers rooms differently, so the decoder skips it.
06Expiry
Nobody comes back to delete things.
That’s how community maps rot. On Cite every report has a lifespan and leaves on its own.
- Replies extend it. Silence doesn’t.
- Pins get asked. Each carries one question: still accurate?
Is this still accurate?
Bathroom · Block 1
How long a report lives
| Food status | 6 hours | |
| General | 12 hours | |
| Hazard | 24 hours | |
| Safety | 48 hours | |
| Accessibility | 3 days | |
| Campus update | 7 days |
Viewing as
Canteen, Block 4Long queue
07Groups
Public, or just your people.
Some things belong on the open map. Some belong to five people and nobody else.
- One switch, top of the map. You always know where you’re posting.
- A private layer. Same streets, seen only by members.
08For business
Run one of these places? Say what’s true at your counter.
People already post your queue and stock. Claim your place and you set it, with hours, menu and events on the pin.
- It clears itself. One tap, for as long as you choose.
On the map
Your placeOpen
8h
Or say it in the map’s own words
09Made in Kingston
Made by students at UTech.
Founded by Kimani McLeish, a UTech student, with co-founders Kuane Forrest (UTech) and Jhonathan Nelson (Florida International University).
About the founders
Free on iPhone and Android.
The map already carries what people posted today. No account needed to look around.