See your badge and notifications

How public users earn bronze to platinum badges for relief camps, where to see your badge and progress in the app, and how the notification bell works.

For: Public users

Public users earn a badge for listing relief camps that reviewers approve. In the app you can see your badge, how close you are to the next one, and your notifications. Badges are given on the website only: nothing in the app can award or change one.

The four badges

Badge	Approved relief camps
Bronze badge	3
Silver badge	6
Gold badge	9
Platinum badge	12

Only approved camps count. A camp linked as a duplicate of another report does not. Staff accounts do not earn badges.

How you get one

1. List relief camps: see List a relief camp from the app.
2. When enough are approved for your next badge, a validator looks over your camps on the website.
3. They approve your badge, or decline it with a reason. Either way, you get a notification.

An administrator can also award a badge directly.

See your progress

Tap Menu, then My badge. The Relief camp badges screen shows:

• Your badge, or No badge yet;
• how many approved relief camps you have;
• how many more you need for the next badge;
• A validator is reviewing your camps, when one is;
• all four badges, marked Earned or Not yet.

Mark a relief camp opens the relief form.

Where your badge shows

• Beside your name, on Menu, About & settings. Tap it to open My badge.
• On the Source line of your reports on the map, in their details and in downloaded PDFs: Public user, then your badge.

Notifications

When you are signed in, a bell in the top bar shows your notifications. A number on it counts the unread ones.

1. Tap the bell to open Notifications.
2. Tap a notification to read it. A badge notification opens My badge.
3. Tap Mark all as read to clear the count.

If a badge was declined, the notification shows the validator's Reason:, word for word. With nothing to show, the list says No notifications yet.

The app checks for new notifications about once a minute while it is open. It does not alert you about badges when it is closed.

The website version is in Earn a relief camp badge and read your notifications.

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