Online Mapping Platforms | Mapping for Change

Community Maps is a cutting-edge digital tool specifically designed for participatory mapping. Community Maps can visualise complex data, compare information, and encourage conversation about places and topics.

Mapping for Change has experience of building bespoke Community Maps for public sector, commercial and community or voluntary organisations. Community Maps has facilitated consultation on a variety of projects including neighbourhood planning, housing and regeneration, local asset mapping, and local sustainability actions.

Using the latest technology, Community Maps offers:
– a clear, intuitive interface, based on years of usability research
– a clear display which is responsive on all devices and screens
– different access rights and permissions for users
– ability to upload media, such as images and audio files
– a hub for conversation and debate
– multi-lingual options
– bespoke customisation and branding options
– importing and exporting of data.

We can provide varied levels of support, depending on the requirements, from delivering a complete community engagement package, including participatory mapping and analysis, to a stand-alone bespoke online Community Map.

Find out more about Community Maps

Local Authorities and Government

Looking for a smarter, more transparent way to facilitate public participation and consultations? Local Authorities use Community Maps to include residents in decisions about housing, public space and regeneration.

View our information sheet for further details.

Community or Voluntary Groups

Want to document and share information about your neighbourhood? Community and voluntary groups produce Community Maps to collaborate, negotiate, and achieve changes in their local area.

View our Information Sheet for further details.

Community Maps is a cutting-edge digital tool specifically designed for participatory mapping. Community Maps can visualise complex data, compare information, and encourage conversation about places and topics.
Mapping for Change has experience of building bespoke Community Maps for public sector, commercial and community or voluntary organisations. Community Maps has facilitated consultation on a variety of projects including neighbourhood planning, housing and regeneration, local asset mapping, and local sustainability actions.
Using the latest technology, Community Maps offers:
– a clear, intuitive interface, based on years of usability research
– a clear display which is responsive on all devices and screens
– different access rights and permissions for users
– ability to upload media, such as images and audio files
– a hub for conversation and debate
– multi-lingual options
– bespoke customisation and branding options
– importing and exporting of data.
We can provide varied levels of support, depending on the requirements, from delivering a complete community engagement package, including participatory mapping and analysis, to a stand-alone bespoke online Community Map.
Find out more about Community Maps

Local Authorities and Government

Looking for a smarter, more transparent way to facilitate public participation and consultations? Local Authorities use Community Maps to include residents in decisions about housing, public space and regeneration.

View our information sheet for further details.

Community or Voluntary Groups

Want to document and share information about your neighbourhood? Community and voluntary groups produce Community Maps to collaborate, negotiate, and achieve changes in their local area.

View our Information Sheet for further details.
- People Zones Leicestershire
- D-NOSES - Tackling Odour Pollution Across Europe
  D-NOSES is a three-year EU funded research project which aims to provide a solution to the largely neglected issue of odour pollution, changing the traditional top-down approach for a bottom-up one. The lack of regulation from authorities around odour pollution is mainly due to it being difficult to reliably measure and the potential solutions being costly to implement.
- Mapping the Pathway to Equalities
  There are around 30,000 Gypsies and Travellers in London. Their culture and traditions have developed through a nomadic way of life over centuries. However, across the country the community face an uncertain future. With some of the poorest social outcomes of any group in Britain the burgeoning cuts to public services will have a disproportionate effect on the community.
- WeGovNow
  WeGovNow is a three year research and innovation project focusing on civic participation in local government. It aims to change the relationship between citizens and local governments, transforming the citizen’s role from customer into partner. This is to be achieved with the development of a single community engagement platform, where citizens can interact with their governments and participate in local decision-making.
- Southwark New Homes
  In early 2015, Southwark Council commissioned Mapping for Change to build an online Community Map to aid and support the work of the Council, in its pledge to build 11,000 new homes over the next thirty years.
- MyAccessible.EU
  MyAccessible.EU is a three year research project funded by the European Commission. It aims to make cities’ built environment more accessible for disabled and older people by challenging social attitudes, raising awareness and delivering assistive mobile applications. These mobile applications will provide tools for collectively gathering and sharing information about accessibility of public spaces.
- Science in the City
  Science in the City is a project that is being carried out with residents in the Barbican and Mansell Street, in the City of London. Residents are using low-tech tools to measure Nitrogen Dioxide and particulates.
- Eco21.PL
  Funded under the Swiss Block Grant, Mapping for Change in collaboration with the Centre for Training and Personal Development MERITUM, the Cultural Authority City of Gardens and Highways 4 Elements carried out a two year training programme in the Silesia region of Poland.
- How to Spend a Million? Northfleet Big Local Trust
  In 2012, the Big Lottery Fund in England invested £1 million in 150 neighbourhoods for its Big Local initiative. Northfleet, Kent, was one of the first 50 to be selected. The grant aimed to equip local communities with skills and tools to identify key areas and issues where action was reqiored in their area.
- Citizen Science Used to Map Community Air Quality
  In 2009, Mapping for Change supported communities across London to measure and map local air quality. Use of a ‘citizen science’ approach meant local residents in seven locations were able to collect data, then see the real results of their monitoring activities, and subsequently embark on a campaign to see the serious results addressed.
- UK Climate and Community Action Map
  Mapping for Change produced a Climate and Community Action Map, to inform people about initiatives happening in their local area. As there are thousands of organisations and projects that could be displayed, there is no one organisation that has a comprehensive list so any mapping will need to rely on local people’s knowledge and readiness to add their work to the map.