This article is about the Proxi admin app at app.proxi.co.
Crowdsourcing is one of the best ways to build a map — let your community suggest the places, and you stay in control of what goes live. It all runs through your collection's public submission form.
Turning Submissions On
Open your collection and click Public submissions in the toolbar.
Flip the switch on. You'll get a public link where anyone can suggest a place.
Choose your safety net: leave Require approval before publishing on and submissions wait in a review queue for you; turn it off and they appear on the map immediately.
Customizing the Form
Click Edit Form to make it yours — a live preview sits alongside while you work:
Public title, Description, Submit button text, and the Success message people see after submitting.
Add field for anything extra you want to ask, plus Section heading and Page break to organize longer forms.
Mark a field as information about the submitter, not the place — like their name or email — and it's kept with your contacts instead of showing on the map.
Sharing the Form
The Share button gives you two options:
The public submission link — share it anywhere; anyone with it can submit a place.
An embed code — paste the form straight into your website.
You can also let visitors submit right from the map: in the map editor, switch on Show add-a-place form under Viewer actions. Visitors even get a shortcut — double-clicking the map starts a suggestion at that exact spot.
Reviewing Submissions
When approval is on, a banner on your collection shows how many submissions are waiting, and the Review button wears a badge. Open it to see Pending, Approved, and Rejected tabs — each pending submission shows everything that was entered, and Approve puts it on the map while Reject quietly declines it. Suggested edits to existing places show exactly what would change, with the old value alongside.