Help make your region safer

Share pedestrian crossing data with CrossMute

CrossMute is building an expanding global database of formal pedestrian crossings on roads and across railways.

We are looking for structured crossing data from transport infrastructure owners, mapping agencies, government departments, leisure providers, national parks, trail managers and other organisations responsible for places where people move on foot.

If your organisation already holds this information, you can contribute to pedestrian safety at no cost.

What we are looking for

We are interested in structured data showing the location of formal pedestrian crossing points.

This may include road crossings, signal-controlled crossings, zebra crossings, pedestrian refuge crossings, level crossings, railway foot crossings, trail crossings and other recognised points where pedestrians cross transport infrastructure.

Useful formats include GIS layers, shapefiles, GeoJSON, CSV files with coordinates, APIs and other structured geographic datasets.

We can also work with existing published datasets or open-data portals.

Why contribute?

CrossMute uses crossing data to help identify when someone using a mobile device is approaching a formal crossing.

That allows the app, or another app using the CrossMute SDK, to provide a simple safety nudge at the point where increased attention may be useful.

By contributing accurate local crossing data, your organisation can help improve coverage in the places it knows best.

The result is a more complete safety layer for residents, visitors, passengers, walkers, runners and other people moving through your area.

No cost to your organisation

There is no charge for contributing data.

CrossMute manages the ingestion, standardisation and integration of appropriate datasets into its wider crossing database.

Where licensing conditions apply, we will work with you to understand the permitted use, attribution requirements and any geographic or operational restrictions.

Our objective is to make useful safety data easier to apply without creating an additional technical burden for the organisations that provide it.

Suitable data partners

We would particularly like to hear from organisations responsible for transport infrastructure, highways, railways, public rights of way, parks, trails, visitor attractions, mapping, active travel and pedestrian safety.

This includes local authorities, national governments, transport agencies, rail infrastructure owners, national parks, trail operators, mapping organisations, universities, leisure estates and large landowners.

Local knowledge matters

Global mapping datasets are useful, but they are rarely complete.

Local infrastructure owners and public bodies often hold more accurate information about recently installed crossings, minor access points, railway foot crossings, temporary changes and sites that are difficult to identify from general-purpose mapping alone.

That local knowledge can materially improve the quality of the CrossMute database.

Make your region safer

Contributing data is a practical way to support pedestrian safety without funding a new project or deploying a new system.

If your organisation already holds structured crossing data, sharing it with CrossMute can help ensure that those crossings are represented in a safety service used by people on the move.

Contact us

If you manage, publish or maintain structured data on formal pedestrian crossings, we would like to hear from you.

Please contact CrossMute with a brief description of the dataset, the area it covers and the format in which it is available.

We can then review the data structure, licensing conditions and the most straightforward way to incorporate it.