Local Community Engagement, 1 & 2
[Update: Part 3 will tie together community maps and climate mapping]
In its ongoing efforts to open national data repositories - which I used in almost a decade here - Ordnance Survey now provides infrastructure data as Open Zoomstack or as Data Hub (trial), from which I completed our map with, say, greenspaces or site info to complement OS Open Carto or Open Streetmap basemaps:
Here is the start of a community engagement presentation - Cottenham Open steps you through history - story maps are an innovative way to engage and to help public understanding of our region.
Brilliant! What a great start to a fascinating new project; so many new opportunities and wonderful to see Cambridgeshire and Cottenham leading on this with world-class digital mapmakers engaged from the get-go.
ReplyDeleteLook forward to seeing what the next chapter reveals. Might it be a linkup with the mighty Wikimedia Foundation?
Good to see Parts 2 and 3 publshed and all four sites put to task in their different ways.
ReplyDeleteUsually I never comment on blogs but your article is so convincing that I never stop myself to say something about it. You’re doing a great job. Please Keep it up. community integration
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