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    Get your alerts as push notifications

    MapAlerter issues alerts through the free smartphone app for Android and iPhone. Download the app for your preferred device to ensure you get push notifications for local issues that affect you:
    Android App (Google Play)
    iPhone App (App Store)
    The main benefits of using the app are as follows:
    • One-Stop shop for your entire MapAlerter experience: create your account, get alerts, view maps and manage your account in one place
    • Receive all alerts from your Council: Some alerts are not issued by SMS so the app is a great way to ensure your smartphone is pinged for every alert that impacts you.
    • Mobile-friendly mapping experience: Designed exclusively for mobile devices, the mapping/GIS system is easy to use and includes lots of mapped data from Councils, Met Eireann, EPA bathing water locations and river height sensors.
    Basic Support Considerations:
    • The app does NOT track your location at any time. The location permission is used on the map screen to start the map over your current location. This saves you time zooming and panning around to find your local area.
    • When you launch the iPhone app for the first time you will need to acccept the Push Notifications permission in order to receive alerts from MapAlerter.
    • Some Android devices (especially recent Samsung models) automatically put the phone "to sleep" for push notifications. If you find alerts are not beeping in on your device then you will need to go into the MapAlerter app settings and change a setting that allows MapAlerter to wake up the device for new alerts. This is a known issue affecting many apps.
    Android App (Google Play)
    iPhone App (App Store)

    The new MapAlerter app is designed to jointly meet the needs of public subscribers and Council staff that are tasked with issuing alerts. Our new design makes it easier for public subscribers to get alerts, search updates, view live maps, and much more. It is now possible for subscribers to submit issues in their locality such as graffiti, pothole, etc, and MapAlerter can route these submissions to the correct Council area.

    Meanwhile, Council staff can now issue alerts directly on the app, and view live feeds of river levels during periods of prolonged rainfall when flood risk is a real challenge. It is even possible for Council staff to issue photographs from incident locations so that everyone invovled in a major emergency can see a live, geo-located feed of incidents on their screen, back at the Major Emergency centre.

    You can invited to download the new MapAlerter app from your preferred location, Google Play or the App Store. The app is free and there are no in-app purchases. The app offers a great way for Councils to reduice their dependency on SMS text messages through push notifications on both app platforms.

    Download for Free:

    Android App (Google Play)
    iPhone App (App Store)