PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

• OpenStreetMap

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.

• guides
• earthquakes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Manage volunteers

Mapping the thinking tool landscape with collective intelligence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Report cards and audits
• Decentralization

UN Mappers is a community of mapping enthusiasts collaborating to collect, validate and disseminate geospatial open data in areas where the United Nations carries out field operations with the goal of supporting the decision-making process with more accurate location-based data.

• OpenStreetMap
• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping
• Pro bono and volunteer

With this mapathon, the UN Mappers community wants to join the efforts of the NGO Yer Çizenler and the OpenStreetMap community to map buildings and roads in the area.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş ve depremi yoğun bir şekilde hisseden Güneydoğu Anadolu illerinde sokakta kalan vatandaşlara

• earthquakes

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

This interactive global map of Public Interest AI projects aims to help foster research on Public Interest AI projects, demonstrate their self-understanding, and provide publicly accessible data about them to the broader public.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic maps
• Civic tech catalogs

A map of Seattle and areas with accessibility in mind, including hill steepness and sidewalk curb barriers

• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

A civic explainer by the Brennan Center for Justice

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy

Tracking Current Wildfires in the US

• fires

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

ArcGIS Field Maps is an all-in-one app that uses data-driven maps to help mobile workers perform data collection and editing, find assets and information, and report their real-time locations.

• Organize campaigns
• Canvassing & Doorknocking

The Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa exists to serve communities in the region by supporting the creation, maintenance, distribution, and use of high-quality open maps that are relevant for and contributed to by local communities.

• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Mapping

We've mapped more than 17,000 New Deal sites and now have more than 100 sites documented in every state.

• Civic maps
• Archives

Mapping data on economic security, housing, health, education and more in NYC

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

A map visualizing the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab research on coordinated disinformation campaigns.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic maps

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Folded Map™ Project visually connects residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago.

• racial equity

• Civic maps
• Artistic interventions

The front of each can of Fair Maps IPA shows Wisconsin's state legislative and congressional districts prior to 2011, then the back reveals the drastic change in election maps after the last round of redistricting.

• gerrymandering

• Voting and elections
• Artistic interventions

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• books

• Mapping
• Books

Track developments in rhino poaching court cases across South Africa

• animals

• Civic maps

A development-focused map of Africa with layers for water, maize, etc.

• Civic maps

ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide.

• anti-harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• Civic maps

An early video mapping project of Aspen, Colorado

• Civic maps
• Predecessors

• resources

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Explore Nepal Using Data

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open data publishing portals

Visualize the public-interest ecosystem of the private, public, academic and independent players that are directly (or indirectly!) collaborating on key public problems.

• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization
• Civic tech catalogs

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Tools for Funders

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping

In January 2022, CIR launched the Eyes on Russia project to collect and verify videos, photos, satellite imagery, or other media related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The goal of the project is simple: to provide the world with timely and reliable information concerning the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine and its people.

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

To take part in STEW-MAP, a person or group collects data from stewards serving their community.

• city
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A collection of data-enriched NYC maps for election results, mutual aid groups, official city boundary data, and more.

Map-based surveys with sentiment visualization

• place-based

• Mapping tools
• Surveys & polling

VividMaps allowed you to engage your community by mapping local assets, special places, or respond to place-based surveys. Build a collaborative map that anyone can easily access with their smartphones on-the-go, or online from home or work.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms
• Mapping tools

Peermaps is a distributed, offline-friendly alternative to commercial map providers such as google maps. Instead of fetching data from a centralized tile service, your computer fetches map data from other peers across the network

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Mapping tools

HousingMaps was the very first Google Maps mashup, created before there was a Google Maps API. It overlaid Craigslist apartment and housing listings on a map, for some 30 US cities plus London.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

VoxMapp Baseline allows you to collect high quality data even in contexts of crisis; VoxMapp Feedback ensures communities participate and remain at the center of the initiative; and VoxMapp Management centralizes the analysis, decision-making and learning mechanisms, to feed into a new positive cycle.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Kita finden leicht gemacht.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Report transportation hazards and dangerous traffic behaviors in our community

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Aktuelle Badegewässerqualität und Informationen rund um die Berliner Badestellen

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Supporting Disaster Response. With a Single Click!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

The Displacement Alert Map is a rich resource of more than a decade of key data on residential displacement in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

This is an assessment of efficiency and functioning of asset disclosure systems in 18 CEE countries.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Members of g0v.tw built a page that matches government information on the recent movements of confirmed coronavirus patients with users' location history based on Google Maps Timeline to check whether or not they may have had contact with the patients, and if so — where and when.

• COVID-19

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

This collaboration between Feeding America and Nielsen in 2014 collected and mapped data about food insecurity across America to aid research and advocacy efforts.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

A collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.

• crisis
• Google
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Mapbox's first event celebrating and exploring the connectedness of the world around us. #explorelocate

• Conferences
• Mapping

Solve your app’s administrative boundary problems, easily

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

NBC News coverage of the Milpitas Odor

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A map visualizing traffic in the city with incidents

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization