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App Development
Hack Week II: Merging the bigger picture
Our second hack week focused on smarter merging for better big-picture planning.

News
Contributing Open Catchment Data Through HDX
The Crosscut App is certified as a digital public good in the open data category, offering settlement catchment outputs for anyone to use through HDX.

App Development
September 2025 updates: Community-level precision and pilot momentum
We spent September supporting WHO's geospatial microplanning work and adding highly requested features to the app.

Case Studies
Vital Supply Chain: Building a Fellowship for a New Era in Global Health
Guest author David Sarley discusses how the departure of a major funder like USAID leaves a void that risks reversing decades of progress – and what we can do.

Case Studies
Mapping Health Boundaries Where None Existed: Schistosomiasis Control in DRC
How Unlimit Health created precise health boundaries for schistosomiasis control in DRC using the Crosscut App and hand-drawn local maps.

App Development
Two-Tiered Catchments: Creating Territories Within Territories
New two-tiered catchments make it easy to create territories within previously created projects.

App Development
August 2025 updates: Nested territories and smarter foundations
In August, we launched a few highly requested features to make geospatial mapping even easier with the Crosscut App.

App Development
Our Newest Catchment Area Algorithm: Fair Supervisory Areas
Fair Supervisory areas work for any administrative planning challenge where you need to divide larger areas into balanced operational units.

App Development
Re-engineering Land Blocks in the Crosscut App
Crosscut’s new hybrid land block system blends detailed polygons where people live with lightweight grids where they don’t, delivering faster catchment maps and smoother performance for field workers.