Park Betanija: Action for a Greener City
Interactive web map and civic engagement platform for urban green spaces
A native-feeling map experience — in a browser, on a budget Android.
The Initiative for Forests & Environment, working with UNDP, needed a free, public-facing tool to help citizens explore Sarajevo's Park Betanija. No App Store, no download — just open a link.
The catch: the experience had to feel as smooth as a native maps app, including location tracking, animated layers, and crisp pan/zoom across every browser and Android version in circulation.
“Placeholder — replace with a real client quote. The kind of thing you wish every project would end with.”
The product, up close.
We treated 'fast on a cheap Android' as the only constraint that mattered.
We gathered requirements with the on-the-ground implementer (Initiative for Forests & Environment / fea), picked a web-first stack tuned for low-spec devices, and designed an architecture that could draw layers and track the user smoothly without spiking memory.
We shipped iteratively, testing on real devices in the park, refining animation timings, and getting feedback from actual visitors before declaring it done.
A browser map that runs smoothly on phones that struggle with anything else.
Visitors navigate the park and learn about its 50+ plant species directly in the browser. Animations stay smooth on five-year-old phones. The platform is free, hosted, and shareable — no install required. The project is part of UNDP's #ReLOaD program, funded by the EU in BiH.
- Platform
- Web app, mobile-first
- Map engine
- Lightweight web-based mapping with custom layer drawing
- Performance
- Tuned for low-spec Android browsers
- Hosting
- Public, free to access — no app install
- Programme
- UNDP #ReLOaD, funded by the European Union
- Timeline
- 2023
What we shipped on this one.
Disciplines and capabilities BetaStudio brought to Initiative for Forests & Environment · UNDP.
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