Safety, made visible.
Aloka is a living map of how streets feel — hour by hour, verified by the people who walk them.
New Delhi · 22:00 · night
Open-data capture: · Monday. Sources and confidence · © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenFreeMap
What maps don’t tell you
Maps tell you where.
Never how it feels when you get there.
So we ask friends, guess, or worry.
67%
of women worldwide said they felt safe walking alone at night, compared with 78% of men.
The Lightmap
Light is the data.
Where conditions are good and confirmed, streets glow. Where we don't know yet, they're simply dark — never condemned.
- Open city data Mapped streetlights, OpenStreetMap lighting tags, Overture places and published opening hours. The map is useful on day one, with nobody signed up.
- Community Lanterns Twenty-second structured check-ins from people verifiably nearby — lighting, activity, sightlines. Never a review of a person.
- Confidence you can see Dense agreement renders sharp. Thin or conflicting data renders diffuse. The map shows how sure it is, not just what it thinks.
Tap a cell, or use the arrow keys, to read its ingredients.
Inner Circle / Middle Circle
Lit · 85/100
Thin evidence · 25% confidence · 22:00
- Mapped streetlights
- 0
- Ways tagged lit
- 1
- Venues with published hours
- 5
- Scheduled transit services
- 0
- Public contributors
- 0
- Community agreement
- Not available yet
Baseline imported 18 Sept 2026. OpenStreetMap · central New Delhi No public community observations in this cell.
- No data yet
- Very dim
- Dim
- Mixed
- Lit
- Bright
Open-data capture: · Monday. Sources and confidence
The Time Dial
The city changes. Most maps don't.
Aloka renders every hour on its own, because a street at noon and the same street at eleven at night are not the same place.
Midday. Every street looks the same.
Published opening hours: 5 venues open nearby
Choose an hour below
New Delhi · Paharganj, around Main Bazar
12:00, day
Open-data capture: · Monday. Sources and confidence
Lenses
The same street doesn't feel the same to everyone.
Aloka doesn't pretend it does.
New Delhi · Khan Market, Lodi Road and the gardens between them at 22:00
Open-data capture: · Monday. Sources and confidence
Step 1 of 5
Where are you?
Janpath, near Connaught Place
On-site ✓
Your device confirmed you're within about 150 metres. We keep the yes — never the coordinates.
A working check-in. Nothing you enter here is sent anywhere.
Lanterns
Twenty seconds. Six questions.
No rants. No descriptions of people. Just conditions — lighting, activity, sightlines — from someone verifiably nearby.
- On-site proof without stored location
- We check once that you're within about 150 metres. What the check returns is a yes or a no. The coordinates are discarded in memory and never written down — there is no location-history table to leak.
- Three people, or no glow
- Community light appears only where at least three separate verified contributors agree. One account, however determined, cannot light or dim a street.
- Anomaly detection
- Every cell's history is watched for sudden shifts, so a coordinated push shows up as an anomaly instead of as light. Photos are stripped of EXIF and have faces and plates blurred before a human ever reviews them.
Lit Routes
A little more time, if you want it.
Aloka routes you through light, not around anywhere. You see both walks, both times, and the reason for the difference — then you choose.
On this walk: about 4 sec more, with 5 percentage points more recorded lighting coverage.
Route order is never for sale. Read the Manifesto
Paharganj to Connaught Place, walking, 22:00. Street source observed 19 Oct 2026. Times are estimates.
Open-data capture: · Monday. Sources and confidence
Choose a walk on the live mapThe Manifesto
Five promises we can be held to.
Written down before launch, in public, so that breaking one is a thing you can point at.
Safety data is free, forever.
Money never touches the map — no sponsored scores, no sponsored routes.
We map conditions, not people.
We don't store your location history.
When we don't know, the map says so.
Why people open it
Five ordinary evenings.
None of these need a map of danger. They need to know what a street is like at the hour they'll be standing in it.
The 10:47 PM commute
The last stretch home from the metro, taken on the road with working lights instead of the shortcut that saves four minutes.
Walk shown at 22:00. 50% has no usable lighting evidence.
The hotel booked sight-unseen
Two rooms, one price. One of them is a five-minute walk along a main road that is busy until midnight.
Walk shown at 21:00. 79% has no usable lighting evidence.
The first week in a new city
A flat that looked fine at noon, seen again at eleven at night — before signing anything.
Walk shown at 23:00. 76% has no usable lighting evidence.
The night shift
A 4 AM walk from the ward to the car park, on the route that is genuinely busy at 4 AM.
Walk shown at 04:00. 100% has no usable lighting evidence.
The kid's walk home
The clocks went back an hour, so the same walk is now a different walk. The map already knows.
Walk shown at 18:00. 74% has no usable lighting evidence.
Built on open data from
- 31,986
- mapped places
- OpenStreetMap and Overture records
- 80
- mapped streetlights
- OpenStreetMap records
- 76
- ways with lighting tags
- Captured 19 Oct 2026
New Delhi is Aloka’s first city. Everything the Lightmap starts with is public record.
Open-data capture: · Monday. Sources and confidence
Early access
Turn on the lights in your city.
Aloka is live in New Delhi. Tell us where you walk and we'll go there next — the votes are the roadmap.