Archive · 26 Jun 2025
Techie Shares Pothole Mapping Website for Bengaluru Roads
A tech-savvy person in Bengaluru found a website that helps people report potholes.
This website, named Open Urban Eyesore, lets users take pictures and mark where potholes are on a map.
Sharing the website on social media got lots of attention, with many people liking it.
People are happy about this because it could help make roads safer.
Some users said they hope the city uses the website to fix the roads, and others suggested sending reports to the local government every week.
The people who made the website are not connected to the government, but they want to make it easier for people to know what's happening with the roads.
A Bengaluru techie shared a website, blr-potholes.pages.dev, for reporting potholes.
The website, called Open Urban Eyesore, allows users to report infrastructure issues and upload geo-tagged images.
The techie's post on X, where he shared the website, received over 55.6K views and 2k likes.
Users expressed appreciation and suggested weekly reports to municipal offices.
The developers clarified they are not affiliated with government agencies but aim for civic transparency.
- Who
- Shushant Goel, a local techie, and the developers of Open Urban Eyesore.
- What
- A website for reporting potholes was discovered and shared.
- When
- June 2025 (mentioned in X post).
- Where
- Bengaluru.
- Why
- To enhance civic accountability and transparency by helping residents report infrastructure issues.
User Concerns
Civic Tech Solutions
Road Conditions and Civic Action
User Concerns
Road conditions in some areas are bad.
Civic Tech Solutions
The website may be useful in improving road conditions, as evidenced by user comments.
- Website Name
- blr-potholes.pages.dev and Open Urban Eyesore
- Techie
- Shushant Goel
- Views on X
- 55.6K+
- Likes on X
- 2K+
- Purpose
- To report and map urban infrastructure issues