Use Safest Way's safety data and routing intelligence to build safer journeys, understand night-time environments, and create better experiences for pedestrians.

A Different Way to Think About Navigation

Most routing engines optimise for speed. Safest Way helps optimise for safety.

Our APIs combine crime data, street lighting, monitored streets, environmental context, and local safety signals to provide safer route recommendations and area-level safety insights.

Routing API

Pass us a start and end point. We return multiple ranked routes, each with a breakdown of safety signals, not just the fastest path.

• 3+ route options per query, ranked by safety score

• Per-route breakdown: lighting, crime density, amenity coverage

• Flexible weighting — tune what matters most

• GeoJSON response, easy to render in any mapping SDK

Origin → Destination, safely scored

MAP API

Safety Intelligence for Any Location

• Lighting map: streetlight density and coverage gaps

• Crime heatmap: incident density, incident-type

• Composite safety score: single index for any area

• Adjustable radius: neighbourhood to city scale

Give us a coordinate or area. We return map layers: lighting coverage, crime heatmaps, and a composite nighttime safety index, ready to render.

Technical overview

Built for clean integration

Formats

• GeoJSON

• JSON

• REST API

• WGS84 (EPSG:4326)

• + others on request

CRS

AUTH

• API KEY

UPDATES

• Monthly

• More often

  upon request

COVERAGE

• London

• Greater Manchester

• Birmingham

• York

• Northern Ireland

• South Hampton

• Continuously expanding to new UK cities

Interested in API Access?

Whether you're building a mobility platform, city dashboard, university service, or safety application, we'd love to hear about your use case.

The map to keep you safe.

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