Your Block. Your Community. Your Territory.
MapRaiders is the local community app built around physical presence. Walk your neighbourhood, claim your streets, and connect with the people who share them.
Enter the gameYour Neighbourhood Is Social: The Apps Aren't
You've lived in your neighbourhood for years, maybe decades. You know the streets, the shortcuts, the corner store that keeps the best hours. But that local knowledge has nowhere to live. Community apps are either impersonal bulletin boards or social media feeds that bury the local in the global.
Nextdoor is good for lost-cat posts. It doesn't help you meet the people who walk the same park every morning. It doesn't let a group of neighbours hold their block together. It doesn't give you a reason to explore the two streets you've always driven past.
MapRaiders is the local community app that only works if you actually show up.
MapRaiders: Local Community App Powered by GPS Presence
MapRaiders is a GPS territory MMO with a deep social layer. Your neighbourhood becomes a game world where physical presence is the only form of participation. The map belongs to whoever walks it.
Hyper-Local Territory
Every block you walk can become territory you own on the MapRaiders map. Your presence in your neighbourhood translates directly into map control.
Neighbourhood Audio Echoes
Drop voice recordings anchored to specific spots, a great dog park, a quiet reading bench, a Friday farmers market. Local knowledge, permanently placed.
Organic Clan Formation
MapRaiders' clan system lets neighbours group up to hold territory together. A block association, a dog-walking group, a building's tenants, any real community can organise.
Presence, Not Surveillance
MapRaiders shows your territory, not your live location. You can claim your neighbourhood without sharing your home address or real-time movements with strangers.
How It Works in Your Neighbourhood
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1Walk your neighbourhood Head out on foot. Every block you walk in your neighbourhood can become territory you claim on the shared MapRaiders map. The more you know the area, the more you can hold.
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2Drop echoes and find your neighbours Leave audio notes at local spots, the bakery that opens at 6am, the park bench with the best view. Discover echoes others left nearby and find out who shares your streets.
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3Form a crew and hold your block Invite neighbours into a clan. Hold territory as a team, coordinate who covers which streets, and build real-world community through the game.
Who This App Is For
- New residents who want to get to know their neighbourhood faster and find the people who already love it.
- Long-time locals who want their intimate neighbourhood knowledge to mean something on a shared map.
- Dog owners and daily walkers whose neighbourhood presence is already deep, MapRaiders rewards that consistency.
- Community organizers who want a tool that motivates physical presence rather than just forum posts.
- Families with kids looking for a reason to explore the neighbourhood together with a game layer kids actually enjoy.
Frequently Asked Questions
What you can do in MapRaiders
MapRaiders joins two worlds. Outside, you claim real streets and squares on the GPS map, on foot, running or by bike. Inside, you collect cards, build a deck around your commander and play in the arena, at home or away. Land you walk is meant to bring you cards.
Claim territoryYour route draws the border. Streets and squares on the real map become your territory. 
Card game and arenaFifty cards around one commander. In the arena you play your deck against others, home or away.
Be First on Your Block
MapRaiders is in open beta. Players who start now have the map to themselves before the neighbourhood fills up. Start now.
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