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ODK's Entities feature lets you collect and use data about people, places, and things over time. This video shows an Entities-powered example of a bed net distribution project where you register households and then return to the households with children to distribute bed nets.

🎅🏾 We’re closing out the year with a not-so-small gift for field teams: built-in Entity mapping.

Mapping Entities helps project managers quickly see what’s happening with households, plots, or assets without digging through tables or dealing with exports.

With just one click, you can now:
✅ Spot quality issues like suspicious clustering of households.
✅ Learn how field staff are progressing on registering plots.
✅ Use filtering to find which assets need follow-ups.

If you’re using ODK Cloud, this update will roll out in the coming days. If you’re not using ODK yet, request a demo at getodk.org to learn more.

The story of Baltipar’s comeback shows what’s possible when communities gain reliable water, solar irrigation and coordinated support across sectors. But none of that progress happens without timely, structured, trustworthy data.

Whether your organization works in water, agriculture or health, ODK Cloud takes care of all the hassles of data collection so your team can focus on impact rather than infrastructure. Request a demo at getodk.org to learn more.

Full story: villagesquare.in/reviving-balti…

Fantastic ODK Insiders call last week! Highlights:

• Langen Mallya (@WWF Tanzania) showed ODK + QGIS for community conservation
• We shared our proposal for preventing invalid polygons
• New updates in Central, Web Forms, and the Collect beta

Watch the full call: youtube.com/watch?v=KD3Eck…

Our latest update adds three major features to help you collect higher quality data.

🗺️ See your data on a map — Visualize submissions with points, lines, and shapes to spot gaps, verify coverage, and understand your data in context. And yes, the map supports clustering!

🧹 Manage Entities in bulk — We’ve heard your feedback and have added time-saving bulk deletion of multiple Entities. More bulk operations are coming soon!

📍 Collect better location data — Participants can now choose places directly from a map in Web Forms! When a place is an Entity, its details appear automatically for added context.

If you’re on ODK Cloud, these improvements will roll out automatically. If you self-host, upgrade instructions are in the docs.

forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-…