KnoWare is designed to facilitate the collection of data from “the crowd” in cases where both the response and the location are important . Users can pose questions to the community of users with the KnoWare app and define the type of response the wish to record. Interested users can respond with the KnoWare app, which results in their response the GPS coordinates at the time of the response being recorded and displayed on a web-accessible, Google-style map created specifically for each question.