Mapping Project Reflections on Community-Driven Initiatives

Highlights

Here's what's coming up for me as I'm reading through the mapping project. I wanted to keep it raw and not add too much filter. So this will be a real-time, live impression of what I'm reading and what I'm sensing around this project. The foundational purpose of this project is to prioritize community-driven, human-centric initiatives. There is an interoperability in this project by ensuring that everyone's contributions are valued. So getting the social buy-in, almost crowdsourcing. I love that aspect of it, that interoperability, making sure that everyone has a voice and everyone can edit and add in real-time, kind of like a Wikipedia. So that's one of my curiosities, if that's what you're envisioning or if there's maybe another way of doing it. And with that piece, my question becomes how to prevent bad actors from contributing. Love the piece around the coordination failure and wanting to avoid that because, yeah, when there isn't a shared goal that everyone is aware of, people can deviate from that main core vision. So I feel like having that somewhere that's practical would be good because then everyone knows what is like the vision of this project is and what is valued and what might not be as valuable. To that point, that Venn diagram could be super helpful to understand what is a piece of this project and what might not be. And also how the different resources, different folks, different groups are coming together to create this project, like what is included, what isn't. And yeah, I love that kind of visual aspect to that. Tools and examples. I love that omni-mapping site that's beautiful. And using tools like iNaturalist and having a GIS layer that incorporates all the different versions of layers that could be added to this project feels collaborative, open-sourced, and also not needing to reinvent the wheel when it's already kind of there. That public square, I'm curious about that. Is that like a hub of some kind, like a social aspect of the project where people can share ideas, resources, somewhere on the tool? Or is that a different piece? Is the map an addition to something like Salt Spring Exchange, which already acts as the public square? And I think you mentioned that this might be something that gets added on top of the exchange, in which case that would make sense. Yeah, those are some initial thoughts. I'm really, really appreciating getting kind of a sneak peek behind this whole endeavor. Seems like a big, big, big, big, big thing to shoot for in the end, but it's looking really good. Really, really appreciating this vision to create something more crowdsourced, grassroots, open-sourced, and collaborative. ^rwhi889170356