Walking Matilda

Pinpointing information

Walking Matilda is a mobile tool used to share or create compiled selections (so-called spottings) on ​​a map. The app is free and very easy to use.

Walking Matilda's field of application is wide. The app can be used to highlight and post information about everything from sights or community functions in a city to service locations at an event, places of nature and culture or why not author cafes in South Africa.

For users:

Each spotting is presented with information with texts and pictures from the places that are marked on the map.

You can easily browse between locations and constantly see your own position relative to them. With a simple click, you can also get directions to the locations.

Administrators can choose to present spottings in a variety of languages.

In this way, Matilda can be used worldwide as a guide, but it is also possible to get all the information from home.

Do this:

1. Find spottings

Matilda has different search functions to find just the information that interests you. You can search by zooming in on a map and then view all the spottings within that area. You can also scan a QR code (from, for example, websites, social media and printed matter), and get direct access to a spotting. Often, administrators have multiple spottings, and these are gathered into a special list (so called hub) where you can see just the spottings provided by a particular administrator, regardless of where they are located. You can also follow links in texts to other spottings or to the internet.

Inside a spotting you can also click on the title to see the administrator's other spottings.

2. Use

You get access to all the spottings anywhere in the world. You can bring them as guides in cities or in nature or you can be at home and study them for future trips and visits. Just browse the map pins to get information and pictures about the different places!