Public Map for Local Communities
Your lived experience helps shape decisions about your place.
You don't need expertise, data skills, or long reports. Public Map gives you a simple way to share what matters to you about where you live — and to see that it's being taken seriously. Every contribution becomes part of a bigger picture that helps organisations and decision-makers understand local needs more clearly.
Our focus is on the positive: helping communities see the potential of their places, as well as the challenges.
Share What You Notice
Put your knowledge on the map.
- Tag observations, memories, and stories to specific locations
- Record places of connection, nature, heritage, joy, and belonging
- Upload photos, films, and sound recordings
- Verify and add context to contributions from others in your community
Add Evidence & Context
Make your insight count.
- Attach lived-experience layers — lighting, noise, accessibility, movement routes
- Support your contributions with context so they carry weight
Get Involved
Find your way in.
- Join the Public Map community via our newsletter and events
- Access community science data-gathering activities
- Get trained on how to map
- Bespoke mapped data reports - mapped data as evidence of need for funding applications
- Facilitated engagement events
Helps with: Community voice · Local advocacy · Belonging · Connection · Civic participation · Understanding your place