Hivemapper Network. Team Area Completion bonuses & customer Bursts/AOI bounties
Decentralized dashcam mapping network where drivers earn HONEY for road imagery. Customers (map data buyers) can post 'Bursts' / Areas of Interest bounties. HONEY put up for grabs on a defined city or polygon. When 100% coverage is achieved, the bounty is split among ALL contributors who helped, forcing local drivers to coordinate. Cities compete on the Global Map Progress dashboard, and region multipliers can be tuned up for under-mapped or high-value areas.
Cities/AOIs compete on percentage of road coverage; customers pick specific cities to fund completion bounties, so cities effectively race for HONEY. Hivemapper's Global Map Progress shows ranked coverage by region.
Team Area Completion bonus is shared by EVERY contributor who helped reach 100% coverage of an AOI. Solo drivers can't unlock it, so locals must coordinate routes (split streets, fill gaps) on Discord/regional channels.
Rare DePIN example where the incentive is explicitly a SHARED team payout per geographic polygon, not individual mining. Closest thing to a 'block-vs-block' Web3 mechanic with real money.
Others in the same family
NATIX Network (AI-camera DePIN with country/city leaderboards)
Decentralized 'Internet of Cameras': drivers use the Drive& smartphone app or VX360 dashcam to capture geospatial imagery and earn NATIX tokens. 243k+ drivers across 171 countries; 153M+ km mapped. Partnered with DIMO for cross-rewards.
Stridekick / Big Team Challenge / Step Count Challenge
Paths for All / Walking Scotland's national 4-week team walking challenge. Teams of 5 (workplaces, community groups, council departments) compete on cumulative steps. Big Team Challenge and Stridekick are commercial backends used by councils to run city-vs-city or department-vs-department editions on virtual maps (London, Route 66, Great Wall etc.).
Walksy / WalkOff (fog-of-war walking games)
Your city map starts under a mist; every step clears fog around your GPS position and reveals streets, parks, and landmarks. Add friends, join/create guilds, fight guild territory wars over city sectors.
Helium Mobile Discovery Mapping + Boosted Locations (LA pilot)
Helium Mobile subscribers opt into Discovery Mapping: walking/driving with the app maps eligible H3 hexes (~2 basketball courts each); subscribers must hit 40 hexes/day to earn. The data drives Boosted Locations. High-footfall hexes where hotspot deployers earn extra MOBILE rewards. LA was the first city specifically targeted with a city-wide boosted-location rollout.
Colab.re - Brazilian municipal app with neighbourhood reports
Brazilian civic-engagement app where residents photograph and post urban problems (dengue hotspots, potholes, broken streetlights) geotagged to neighbourhoods. Reports flow to city hall for action and are visible to other residents who can upvote/comment. Won UN award as best urban app and a top-5 Government & Participation app.
Chronica Mobilis
Serious pervasive game in Barcelona Raval (a gentrifying immigrant neighborhood) where teams of players move through real streets engaging with situated audio/visual storytelling about gentrification and immigration. Documented in Springer's 'Authoring a Serious Pervasive Game for Reflecting upon Urban Spaces' (2018) and cited in JMIR Serious Games 2023 systematic review.