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Swords Live is a place app for Swords.

Transport. Planning. Local issues. Nature. Property. Weather. History. Local knowledge.

Normally, those things live in different apps, websites and datasets.

Swords Live brings them together around the one thing they share:

Swords itself.

The bus belongs to a route.
The planning application belongs to a site.
The photograph belongs to a place.
The issue belongs to a street.
The history belongs to somewhere you can stand.

Swords Live connects those things to the real place they concern, making Swords easier to see, understand and use.

The easiest way to understand it is from where you're standing.

If you live here

Swords Live is one app for more of Swords.

Check the bus. Find a trail. See what is being built nearby. Look up a tree or local place. Report something that needs attention. Discover history you have walked past for years.

Instead of hunting through separate services, start with the place.

If you're involved in Tidy Towns, a residents' group or a local project

Swords Live gives you tools for noticing, recording and improving the place.

Record an issue. Add a photograph or local knowledge. Where appropriate, send a request to Council Operations.

Then keep the record attached to the place — what was noticed, what changed and what happened afterwards.

If you run a business, school, club or community organisation

Swords Live helps local organisations become part of the wider picture of Swords.

Share what you know, connect information to places and projects, and make it easier for others to find, understand and contribute.

If you work in Fingal County Council, the EPA, a transport authority or another public body

Swords Live is another view of the place you already help manage or serve.

Public information, reports, assets, planning, environmental data and service updates can be connected to the places they concern — alongside what people and other organisations are seeing on the ground.

Instead of each system showing one part of Swords separately, those parts can meet through the place itself.

If you operate a service such as Swords Express, Dublin Bus or Go-Ahead

Swords Live connects the service you provide to the place where people experience it.

Stops, routes, live vehicles, departures and journeys can sit alongside the places and services passengers are moving through.

The same principle works for other local services and infrastructure.

If you work in planning, property, development, environment or heritage

Swords Live is a place-based view of change.

Planning applications, property activity, trees, environmental observations, history and photographs can accumulate around the sites and objects they describe.

Instead of each source telling a separate story, the place becomes the thread connecting them.

If you work with maps, data, research or digital twins

Swords Live is a live model of a real town, built for ordinary use.

A bus stop can know its service.
A tree can carry observations and photographs.
A site can carry its planning history.
A public issue can show what was reported and what happened afterwards.

Real things can accumulate current state, history, evidence and provenance over time.

But the technology is not the product.

The product is the place.

If you're interested in doing this somewhere else

Swords is where it is being built first.

The technology underneath Swords Live is called MapClick — a place-based system designed so the same approach can work elsewhere.

Swords Live is the first place app built on it.

Swords gets it first.