JFK>>> This is a nice collection of ideas for community mapping projects with some cool tech integration. I can imagine are all sorts of interesting iterations of this: Map a Fruit Tree in school. How about: Urban parks? Fresh markets? Recycling Centers? Whose ready???
I recently gave a talk about community mapping at a Living Streets Aotearoa meeting. This post contains the examples of community mapping that I mentioned in the talk. All these examples all fall within my general area of research, i.e. social health and wellbeing, and almost all of these examples use google maps.
Note: By “community mapping”I mean maps made by the community. There are other things it might possible be called or related to: neogeography, participatory mapping, volunteered geographic information, collaborative mapping etc. I didn’t have time to figure out the appropriate name.
Example 1: Mapping the location of fruit and urban edibles
- City Fruit (Seattle)
- Bloomington Urban Harvest
- Fernwood Fruit Tree Project
- Fitzroy Feral Fruit Map
- New Zealand Fruit and Food Share Map
Example 2: Bicycle routes
- MapMyRide
- Bikely
- Ride the City – safe bike routes in NYC,. This is more a map for the community than a map
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