Cartogramapsmade bymany
A digital participatory mapping platform that helps communities, researchers, local authorities and civic organisations document place-based knowledge.
01 - The Vision
What is Cartogrammm?
A place-based mapping tool designed to make lived experience visible.
Conventional maps often show streets, buildings, infrastructure and administrative boundaries. Cartogrammm maps what is harder to see: local knowledge, memories, informal networks, everyday practices, feelings of belonging, care, safety, exclusion and possibility.
By gathering these situated forms of knowledge in a shared digital map, Cartogrammm supports more inclusive conversations about places and their futures.
02 - Purpose
Why it matters
Too often, the knowledge people hold about their own places is excluded from formal systems of planning, research and governance.
Cartogrammm responds to this gap by creating a simple way for communities to record and share what they know: the spaces they value, the resources they rely on, the changes they experience, and the futures they imagine.
03 - Methodology
How it works
Capture what matters
Participants add geo-tagged entries using photographs, short texts, tags and observations.
Build a collective map
Individual contributions come together to form a shared picture of a neighbourhood, site or community.
Identify patterns
Mapped entries can reveal recurring themes, local priorities, overlooked assets and everyday challenges.
Support action
The map can inform community projects, research, planning conversations, policy discussions and local decision-making.
04 - Interface Showcase
Watch how we do it.
05 - Applications
What can Cartogrammm be used for?
Whether you are a community organisation, researcher, local authority, planner or civic initiative, Cartogrammm can help you gather and visualise place-based knowledge.
Community resource mapping
Identify local assets, services, networks, spaces of care and everyday infrastructures.
Participatory planning
Support more grounded consultation processes by connecting lived experience to specific places.
Research and co-production
Gather qualitative spatial data for community-engaged, place-based and participatory research.
Heritage and memory mapping
Document intangible heritage, local histories, memories and attachments to place.
Regeneration and urban change
Make visible how communities experience development, displacement, infrastructure and environmental change.
Resilience and climate action
Map local resources, vulnerabilities, environmental concerns and collective capacities.
06 - Case Studies
North Woolwich + Silvertown: The Resilient Map
Data Disclosure
Cartogrammm is an open platform where geolocated maps are collaboratively built. Contributed observations, files, and commentary are authored solely by volunteers and community organizers, and do not represent endorsements of accuracy by the Cartogrammm platform. We prioritize privacy; personal identifiers are kept separate from public datasets according to our Privacy Policy.