Ecosystem

The ecosystem consists of the apps, organisations and tools that build on the Open Reviews dataset.

Apps for Readers and Reviewers#

• CoMaps: Read the reviews of a place in an offline navigation app for Android. (release notes)
• CultureTogether: Find cultural venues in Germany by their accessibility, and review them.
• Mangrove reference app: Review places, websites, books and companies, and comment on reviews, with every feature of the standard.
• MangroveViewer: See every place review on one map. (source)
• MapComplete: Review places on themed OpenStreetMap maps, such as cafes or shops, and add their details to the map.
• Open Camping Map: Read campsite reviews beside the facilities and access rules of campsites worldwide.
• Openreviews.cz: Browse and write the reviews of places in the Czech Republic, in Czech. (source)
• Untracked Maps: Plan routes and transit trips, and review places anonymously, in a French map app that keeps your data on your phone.

Regional Tourist Boards#

• Haslital Tourismus
• Heidiland Tourism
• House of Winterthur
• Ostschweiz Tourismus
• Thurgau Tourismus
• Toggenburg Tourismus

Tools#

Embedding#

• Open Reviews Widget: Display and collect reviews on any website from an HTML snippet.

• Mangrove Reviews Browser Extension: Review the website, place or book in the current tab from a popup. (source)

Libraries#

• mangrove-reviews: Read and write reviews from JavaScript with a local key or through the signer login, bind identities, and find the Fediverse account to follow. (source)
• mangrove-reviews-typescript: Call the reviewer API from TypeScript with the client that MapComplete maintains. (source)
• mangrove-reviews: Validate reviews, encode keys and run did:plc operations in Rust. (source)

APIs#

• reviewer API: Read and write reviews over HTTP from any language.
• signer API: Sign reviews over HTTP with a key that the signer holds for a logged-in reviewer.
• Fediverse bridge API: Find the Fediverse account of a reviewer or a subject over HTTP.

Inspection and Analysis#

• JWT Inspector: Build, sign and verify review JWTs against the Mangrove Review Standard in the browser. (source)
• mangrove-osm-coder: Find the OpenStreetMap element that each review in the Mangrove dataset refers to.
• Mangrove Reviews Stats: Chart the dataset by reviews over time, the sites reviews are written on, and reviewer activity. (source)

Data Sources#

• lib.reviews: Reviews written on lib.reviews are imported into the dataset under CC-BY-SA 4.0. A review deleted on lib.reviews is deleted from the dataset. (importer source)
• CritiqueBrainz: Reviews of music and books written on CritiqueBrainz under CC BY-SA 3.0 are imported into the dataset under that license, with the MusicBrainz or BookBrainz page of the reviewed entity as the subject. An edit on CritiqueBrainz updates the imported review, and a review deleted or hidden there is deleted from the dataset. (importer source)

Corporate Members#

Contribute#

You can contribute to this list using the GitLab repository. Apps, tourist boards and the browser extension are listed in src/data/apps.ts, and the other entries in this page’s source.