Public Map Platform is a two-year research initiative led by Cambridge University to make places in the UK better for the people who live there
The process for planning our places should be accessible, engaging and empowering
This project seeks to transform the UK planning system to make this a reality.
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Why Are We Doing This?
Planning is intended to help us design and organise spaces where we can thrive, but it has consistently been falling short...
What Are We Doing?
We’re using open mapping processes to enable communities to show what’s important to them, and to have a voice in how their spaces are designed and developed.
Where Are We Doing It?
For many reasons, we’ve chosen Ynys Môn / The Isle of Anglesey as the place to develop this project.
Latest Blog
Green Futures: mapping as a medium for self-expression and supporting decision making
In this blog, Daniel, one of the project’s Community Mappers, shares the work he’s been doing delivering mapping workshops in primary schools. Focusing on environmental issues, the workshops have sought to engage children in mapping their local areas, and how mapping can be a medium for self-expression and supporting decision making.
Latest News
Public Map Platform invited to exhibit at the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice
What People Are Saying
“I just came out of the all-Wales Local Nature Partnership meeting today and a few people were talking about how exciting the Public Map project is and how it could be a 'game-changer' for Local Nature Partnerships in the future! I know everything is stressful right now but just wanted you to know that people are very bought-in and cheering for the project to succeed.”
Aurora Hood
Local Wildlife Officer, Cyngor Ynys Môn
“We have had so much fun being part of this project, all the pupils have been engaged with all the activities from mapping their journey to school, mapping local areas that are important to them and going on a trip to taking part in the personal air sensor research - this information was so interesting! Our air sensor in the classroom has provided very interesting data too where we have discovered that CO2 is quite high, so we have been trying to lower it in different ways such as opening the door, buying plants, using an air purifier. All the staff that we have worked with have been so great and the workshops we've had have been so fun and the children have learned so much! We look forward to having more sessions with the environmental researchers in the new year. Diolch.”
Mrs Mari Edwards
Ysgol Gymraeg Morswyn
“What's great about your project in particular is that it is open source. in our world of digital boundaries and bubbles and spaces we live, it's great to be able to share and link information like this across services so that people can find things where they are rather than having to drag themselves digitally to ‘somewhere new’.”
Ben Freeman
Manager, DASH Ceredigion
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