Maptionnaire

01/11/2024

🚦 Ready to start paving the way for more community-driven transportation planning in your organization?

The people in our communities are the true experts on their daily journeys. But how can we capture their knowledge and turn it into actionable data? A digital, map-based approach to community engagement is transforming transportation planning for good—making it more accessible, data-driven, and reflective of local needs.

Join us next Tuesday, November 5th at 10 AM EST for our webinar: Inclusive Transportation Planning with Map-based Engagement.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

💡 Implement best practices for map-based engagement in transportation planning.
💡 Leverage digital tools to effectively engage diverse stakeholder groups.
💡 Streamline data gathering and analysis using GIS solutions.
💡 Run successful, community-driven projects with real-life case studies, including a Mississippi River crossing project.

We'll have an inspiring lineup of experts as speakers:
⭐ Anna Broberg, co-founder and COO at Maptionnaire
⭐ James Taylor, Senior Planner at Franklin Associates
⭐ ⭐ Rachael Bronson, AICP and Kenny Armstrong, AICP, Multimodal Transportation Specialists at TPD

Register now to save your spot 👇

Discover strategies for enhancing community engagement projects with a digital map-based solution in transportation planning.

13/04/2024

Thank you for the opportunity being features in APA’s publications. Wonderful and needed chance to shed light how map-based community engagement can support us in creating more livable and lovable places.

Sponsored content from Maptionnaire: Digital community engagement offers flexibility and accessibility. The web-based approach overcomes geographical and temporal constraints, allowing community members to share experiences, suggest ideas, and voice concerns at their convenience, regardless of when....

03/04/2024

Seeking ways to ensure the stakeholders' voices are truly heard in your master planning projects? 📢

Join us for an insightful webinar on using digital map-based community engagement in master planning!

In this webinar Maarit Kahila, the co-founder and CEO at Maptionnaire, and Ryan Mottau, the Digital Engagement Director at MIG, will delve into how the digital approach helps gather more precise stakeholder insights for informed decision-making. Catch real-life examples, spotlighting the Point Loma Nazarene University campus master plan, to enrich the learnings.

📅 Date: April 11, 2024
🕒 Time: 12 pm EDT
📍 Where: Online

Register now to save your seat! 👇

Discover strategies for streamlining community engagement projects with a digital map-based solution.

02/11/2023

Are you looking for a sustainable, manageable, and data driven way to map the insights of the ordinary residents – the endless source of real-time, everyday information of their surroundings?

Join Hannu Stewart from Maptionnaire, Aslaug Tveit from LÉVA Urban Design AS, and Magdalena Hedman from FOJAB in a Maptionnaire webinar called Turning Local Insights into Actionable Data: Spatial Approach for Impactful Community Engagement on Thursday November 16th, at 14.00–15.00 CET.

By joining us on you’ll learn how to:

💡 Simplify engagement processes by harnessing a location-based solution
💡 Understand the capabilities of various citizen engagement methods and use them
💡 Utilize engagement data in the planning process
💡 Apply Maptionnaire at all stages of the engagement project

Learn more and register here: https://www.maptionnaire.com/webinar-spatial-approach-to-community-engagement Make sure to register even if you can’t join live. We’ll send the recording to you.

23/10/2023

Just stumbled upon a research piece by Urban Institute "Who Makes Planning Choices?" — and although the findings are far from exciting, it’s even more important to talk about the current situation in planning. The data is form the US, but the situation might be similar to other systems.

Land-use decision-making bodies — whose decisions on land-use laws influence from property prices to labor market efficiency, to CO2 emission targets — are rarely representative.

Some of the stats:
⇾ Non-Hispanic white residents are overrepresented.
⇾ Men are overrepresented.
⇾ Homeowners are overrepresented.
⇾ People with occupations related to land-use development are overrepresented.

The implications are drastic: most of the laws drafted and implemented by these bodies do not take into account the voices of people who carry out their consequences. That is why diversity and inclusivity at all stages of citizen engagement matters. And yes, Maptionnaire times and again proves that it boosts inclusivity and engages more people in the decision-making process, but a political and cultural will often come first.

Here is the full report:

The Urban Institute conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of land-use decisionmakers nationwide to collect and analyze data on the racial and gender characteristics, housing tenures, and occupations of land-use decisionmaking board members across 482 jurisdictions and 601 land-use decisionmaking bodi...

11/10/2023

To accelerate the switch to electric and hybrid vehicles, the supportive infrastructure must reflect local preferences and habits.

And what better way to gather this information than simply asking users where they would like charging stations to be located?

The City of Copenhagen – home to 600,000 residents, rising to more than 2 million in the metropolitan area – consulted its residents, stakeholders, and guests when expanding its EV charging infrastructure. By running the consultation digitally, the planners ensured a broad outreach and gathered precise data to support the development work.

For this project, the Construction, Parking, and Environment Office designed a Maptionnaire survey where respondents simply marked on a digital map the desired location for a charging station. The map also shows the existing charger infrastructure, helping respondents make a more balanced decision.

More learnings from this case here:

Copenhagen ran a community consultation with a map-based survey to let residents define the placement of EV charging stations.

25/09/2023

Are there any Portuguese speakers here? 🙋 Together with APAP and Upnorth, Maptionnaire will host a webinar on PPGIS and participatory planning. Join us on October 3, 18:00 Lisboa time!

Hannu from Maptionnaire will talk about how the platform uses PPGIS technology and advances inclusive planning (in 🇬🇧), while Nuno from Upnorth presents a few cases of using PPGIS in a Portugese context (in 🇵🇹).

Save your spot here: https://buff.ly/3roeHDP. See you! 👋

07/09/2023

Celebrating Success: Engaging Over 45,000 Residents in Jalisco! 🌟

The Secretariat of Citizen Participation and Planning in Jalisco, Mexico tackled a complex transportation issue with a groundbreaking community engagement plan.

Here's what they achieved:
🔍 Inclusive Engagement: Collaborated with residents, stakeholders, and organizations.
🗺️ Digital Participation with Maptionnaire: Used our digital platform for citizen engagement that offered 35,000 people an opportunity to participated
🙋 Diverse Participation: Engaged 46,124 people, reaching various demographics.
🚀 Impactful Results: Proposed a multidimensional solution to the transportation problem.�

Learn more about this inspiring project that showcases the power of community engagement! 👉 Read the full story:

Read on how the State of Jalisco, Mexico developed an effective community engagement plan that involved 45000+ residents and stakeholders.

30/08/2023

How can a draft plan or a city design dynamically show the changes to the public? GIFs and other short animations are awesome for this purpose.
They can add a time perspective to the plan and make it more engaging and easy to grasp.

Just a few ideas of what you can show in a GIF:
📍Add up layers one by one
📍Show before and after
📍Show how the changes will take place in time
📍Show what the differences are between proposals
📍Any other ideas?

What’s more, you can integrate GIFs in your Maptionnaire survey as a background image! This way, you’ll show what aspects of the environment are going to change and make the survey even more interactive. You can later use individual views from the plan to collect specific GIS-backed feedback.

A tip: you can create a GIF in Canva for free with your own materials. Just be mindful of the length (don’t go over 30 seconds) and don’t stack too much information in one GIF (and give enough time to grasp each view). Voilà!

20/08/2023

To involve or not to involve? It’s not even a question anymore — a master planning process (or any city development project) has to include citizen engagement in its many stages.

The benefits are many:
✧ Aligning the goals between citizens and planners
✧ Getting valuable data from residents
✧ Increasing buy-in of the whole plan
✧ Building trust with residents and being transparent
But engagement also comes with some hurdles, like reaching out to underrepresented groups or integrating participation results into the plan draft.

To help you successfully organize and manage citizen engagement in master planning processes, we’ve put our expensive expertise into a guide.

Download it for free here: https://maptionnaire.com/citizen-engagement-master-planning-guide.

You’ll learn how to:
* Plan the engagement processes at various stages of a master planning project
* Apply Maptionnaire at all stages of the master planning project
* Use the engagement data in the planning process
* Plan the outreach for engagement campaigns and report the results back to the citizens
* Learn from multiple examples of cities implementing citizen engagement with Maptionnaire

31/07/2023

How do you design truly inclusive community engagement activities in a planning project?

Here are 10 actionable guidelines for inclusive citizen engagement created by participation professionals, planners, and academics. These tips help you organize and manage the engagement process, especially in city planning and climate mitigation projects.