Reporting street problems in Mafra

Mafra has no reporting app. That is where CleanSpot matters most

We found no app or platform run by Mafra council for reporting problems in public space. What exists are the general contacts: phone, email and the front desk. They work for making a request, but they leave nothing visible to anyone else.

CleanSpot fills that gap without waiting for the council. Take a photo, drop the pin, and the report appears on a public map with date and coordinates. Neighbours in Mafra see it, confirm it and can volunteer to clear it, alone or as a group event.

And when the council needs chasing, a dated, photographed record of the same spot, repeated over weeks, is much harder to ignore than a phone call.

Mafra council’s contacts

Mafra council has no reporting app; the council app on its site, Mafrativa, is about sport. For problems on the public road the channels are the contact form, the main phone line and the municipal police.

• Phone: 261 810 100
• Email: geral@cm-mafra.pt
• Municipal police: 261 818 261
• Civil protection (emergencies): 800 261 261

A report that gets resolved, on any channel

What moves a report forward is nearly always the same whatever the channel: someone has to be able to find the spot and understand what is there without phoning you to ask.

• Exact location: coordinates or a pin on a map, not just the street name
• One photo close up and one from further back, so size and access are clear
• What it is: bags, rubble, furniture, a pothole, a dead street light
• How long it has been there, and whether it is the first time
• If there is a hazard (glass, asbestos, a hole on a crossing), say so first

What CleanSpot has that a municipal channel does not

• A public map of everything reported, with date, photo and coordinates
• Cleanups: anyone can volunteer, alone or as a group event with invitations and a shared recap
• Groups, comments, messages and mentions, because keeping a street clean is neighbours’ work rather than form-filling
• Vision AI that suggests severity and tags from the photo
• Duplicate detection: if a pin already exists a few metres away, your photo joins that record instead of splitting it
• Per-location recurrence history, the argument that justifies a new container or more collections
• Works offline: the report queues and uploads when there is a connection
• 30 languages, free, no advertising

Sources

• Câmara Municipal de Mafra — Contactos (2026-10-19)