Chocomapping and Platial.com
Veronique Christensen pointed me to Platial, a community oriented mapping site. So of course, I had to make a chocolate map.
Will you help me with my chocolate map? Add your favorite place to buy/eat good chocolate. Particularly dark chocolate. I'm heading to London and Brussels this summer, and Australia in October. Recommendations appreciated. (You may need to hit the zoom out button to embrace the world.)
It is interesting to think about this tool in the context of global communities of practice. I've been spending time with the World Cafe people thinking about how they can support each other. Maps like these, with the event feature it includes, could be really interesting. How can practitioners find each other? How can people find World Cafe events to attend and learn the process from others?
This can also help a community "see" itself via the flags. Lots of possibilities.
posted by Nancy White at 11:37 AM
1 Comments:
Nancy,
I met and talked with a Rep from Platial.com over the weekend at the Grassroots Tech Organizer's conference in Boston, MA. There is some amazing potential here; particularly around community asset mapping. True Majority has been putting these types of maps together for political campaigning, and now many different organziations will be able to do the same. I look forward to seeing how they're used.
~S
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