The danger map is a shared hazard map built by Ask A Vet pet owners. If you spot something dangerous to pets — snake bait in a park, broken glass on a path, a flooded creek — you can drop a pin on it, every other Ask A Vet owner in the area sees it, and other people's pins show up on your map the same way.
Where to find it
Danger pins are the red pins on the GPS Tracker map screen, which you reach from your pet's profile once a tracker is registered to that pet.
Please note: Danger pins appear on the GPS Tracker map only. They are not shown on the Home all-pets map.
What you see when you tap a pin
The hazard sheet opens with:
- A red Reported danger label.
- The hazard's category and the specific hazard types, for example "Wildlife · Snake".
- A distance chip showing how far it is from your pet, such as "90 m from Rocky".
- A time chip — "Reported just now", "Reported 2 hours ago", and so on.
- Any photos the reporter attached. Tap a photo to see it full screen.
- The description they wrote and the address.
- A row showing how many people have backed it up: "{number} owners verified this", with their profile pictures.
Who can see reports, and who is named
Every Ask A Vet pet owner whose map covers the area sees an active report. That's the point — a hazard is only useful if the people walking past it are warned.
Important: The person who reported a hazard is never named or shown. The only profile pictures on a report belong to people who tapped Still here to confirm it.
How the map stays accurate
There's no review queue — a report goes live for the community the moment it's submitted. Instead, the community keeps it honest:
- Anyone who walks past can answer "Is the danger still here?" with Still here or It's gone.
- Confirmations keep a report alive; two people saying it's gone takes it down.
- A report nobody confirms drops off the map within 24 hours by itself.
See How long does a danger report stay on the map? for the full timing.
Do I need a subscription?
No. Reporting hazards and seeing them isn't tied to any plan or allowance. The only limit is how many reports one person can file in a day — see Danger reports: privacy and common questions.
Getting to the map is the one requirement: it opens from a pet that already has a GPS tracker registered to it.
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