for Community Planning for Community Planning and Developmentand Development

Information + action for social change

A national civil rights policy/action tank

Mapping Data Provides Visual Evidence for• Community Issues & Needs• Community Knowledge• Coordination• Locating Assets and Gaps• Planning • Policy/Advocacy

http://www.npsp.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1608

What you can do on Healthy City.org• Find potential partners

• Map, chart data

• Create community profiles

• Gather community input on proposed projects

• Upload data and information to share and package

• View what others are working on and share your projects or collaborate

• Find services and partners

HealthyCity.org is a statewide resources that enables you to:

•Map, Chart & Rank community data

HealthyCity.org is a statewide resources that enables you to:

•Upload data & Share your community’s story

HealthyCity.org is a statewide resources that enables you to:

Mapping & charting community data to

demonstrate need and advocate for planning

Map Example #1:

There are concerns about environmental hazards related to a planned development. Are

there schools located near this site?

Click Change to select the Geography of Interest

Add schools to your map

Share your map via Facebook

Map Example #2:

Where are there renters in Sacramento? Where are there vacant units? Are there opportunities

for redevelopment here?

Click the +- buttons to add

Data to your map

Are there vacant units in high renter areas?

Mapping & charting community data to

demonstrate the need and advocate for resources

Questions?

Additional features on HealthyCity.org

A few HealthyCity.org Advanced Features

• Upload your own Point & Thematic Datasets

• Draw your own neighborhood boundaries

• Collect community input with Wikimaps

Upload your own Point OR Thematic Datasets

Create an Excel Spreadsheet with up to 1000 points

*Save as Excel 97-2003 workbook*

Upload your own Thematic Datasets

Draw your own neighborhood boundaries

A Wikimap enables multiple people to :

• Draw and drop points, lines, and shapes on a shared map • Attach photos & video

Create Wiki - Mapping Sessions

(with Pictures, Video & Audio)

…answer specific research questions What are the research questions that

you want to answer?

…gather community member feedbackHow will you gather feedback? From

which community members?

…develop place-based strategiesHow will you use this to inform your

strategies?

Community-Engaged Mapping Key Information Needed To…

Safe Passages to School

Community-engaged mapping was used to help answer the following research questions:

• What areas in the community do students and parents feel most unsafe?

• What routes do students and parents travel to and from school?

• What are the environmental design issues in this area that might contribute to not feeling safe and/or a lack of personal security?

Safe Passages to School

Students and parents were able to discuss and share locations of unsafe places, routes taken to school, and what environmental design issues they felt contributed to the lack of safety

Safe Passages to School

Key Advantages: • data entry during the event • multiple computers can enter data simultaneously• results, patterns, etc. from participants can be seen and discussed immediately

Questions?

…is an information + action resource that unites rigorous research, community voices and innovative

technologies to solve the root causes of social inequity

COMMUNITY RESEARCH LABCOMMUNITY RESEARCH LAB

Training community groups to lead and sustain action-oriented research &

technology projects

ONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGYONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGYwww.HealthyCity.orgwww.HealthyCity.org

Thank You!

DIRECT TECHNICAL SUPPORT DIRECT TECHNICAL SUPPORT :

Work ON-THE-GROUND to develop targeted research/policy strategies

and web tools