Publish the built environment.
A public field guide to architecture, public art, and cultural environments, worldwide.
Your surveys, heritage programs, and walking tours already exist. Acarta makes them findable on the map, in the app, and embedded on your own site.
A field guide that is already global.
Acarta covers architecture, public art, and cultural environments in cities worldwide. All of it rests on local knowledge, named creators, and cited sources. People discover places they did not know about, read about your buildings from home, and find them on site. Your texts and credit add to what is already there.
- 10,000+
- places in the catalog
- 5,500
- architects, artists, landscape architects
- 250
- cities
- 8
- interface languages
Who Acarta is for.
Different organizations work with the built environment in different ways. Here are four ways to use Acarta.
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Municipalities
Heritage programs, public art, and city walks reach residents, schools, and visitors on the phone. Existing surveys, GIS layers, and sign content come in as source material.
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Museums and heritage organizations
Your knowledge appears where people already stand: on the map, at the buildings and collections you work with. Markers, curated maps, and articles credit your organization clearly.
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Dioceses, foundations, and property owners
Your churches and buildings get their own pages with history, images, and maps. You review and update within your own properties, without rebuilding the material from scratch.
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Destinations
Visitors find local architecture and art before and during the trip. The same content embeds on your own site or becomes a branded guide page in Acarta.
What you can do in Acarta.
Six ways to work in Acarta. Everything draws on the same underlying material.
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Collect places and source material
Create and update buildings, art, walks, images, and sources.
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Add markers, articles, and curated maps
Mark, explain, and group places within your area. Every contribution carries a clear byline.
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Show the content in several channels
Publish in Acarta, or embed a map on your own site. Or build a whole guide page for a city, route, or collection.
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Follow use with aggregated reports
Follow what people open, save, and visit. Reports aggregate patterns at the group level.
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Bring in existing registers
Lift in surveys, GIS layers, heritage programs, and sign content as source material.
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Translate place content as it grows
The interface ships in eight languages. Place content is translated piece by piece, without starting a separate language project.
Common ways to start.
Three common starting points. The material reuses easily in other formats.
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Guide for a city, route, or collection
A guide of places, walks, and articles. Plus simple usage stats.
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Markers from an organization
Markers and articles from a museum or heritage organization, shown on the places they cover.
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Embedded map or your own guide page
A map or guide page on your own website, kept in sync with what is updated in Acarta.
How to get started.
Three steps from first conversation to live.
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See what already exists
We look at your city or subject area and see what the catalog already covers.
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Build a small first version
We prepare a first selection of places, maps, articles, or markers. You review before anything goes live.
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Publish, support, renew
The first version goes live. We then keep the material current on a yearly basis.
Common partner questions.
Do we own the content we contribute?
Yes. You keep the rights to everything you contribute, and you can take it with you if the partnership ends.
Is Acarta a planning system? Does this satisfy PBL?
No. Acarta is not a legal planning system. We can publish and structure the public knowledge layer around heritage material, but formal planning decisions remain in your own systems.
Can we use grant funding (KAE, Länsstyrelsen, regional culture funding)?
Often, yes. Several types of heritage and cultural-environment communication can fit public collaborations or grant processes. We discuss that case by case.
Does this replace our existing audio guide, brochure, or signage?
More often it gives the material another channel. Your existing texts, routes, images, and sign content lift into Acarta and show up both in the app and embedded on your own site.
Does the content reach visitors from outside our region?
Yes. Acarta is used globally. Most people open a place page from home, while planning a trip or reading up on a city. Your texts and images reach travelers before they arrive.
How does this work for an organization that stewards hundreds of buildings?
You get your own workspace in Acarta for your buildings. You review and update within your area. The model works for a municipality, a diocese with many churches, or a property owner with many buildings.
Are you a competitor to our current app, map, or brochure?
Rarely. We are happy to link out to your own deeper material and make existing content easier to find.
What about exclusivity?
We allow parallel collaborations. Several named sources can appear on the same place in Acarta.
How do we start?
Email partners@acarta.app with a sentence about what you steward. We reply within a week.
Show us what you want to publish.
Send a short note about your city or collection. We reply with a concrete first step.