81 percent of women and 43 percent of men report having experienced some form of sexual harassment during their lifetime. [1] Voices are louder than ever, demanding change. …

It’s a simple, but powerful concept: asking a bunch of people to mark stuff on a map. We call it “collaborative and crowd-sourced mapping”, or “crowd-mapping” but there are many other names: VGI — Volunteered Geographic Information PPGIS — Public Participation GIS Neogeography Participatory Geoweb Community Mapping What do these…

A platform for creating, publishing, and contributing to collaborative maps. In 2017, I helped run a pilot project asking the citizens of Karlsruhe, Germany to map their wants and needs with regards to bicycle infrastructure. I was amazed at the quality of the contributions and comments our project received — though building and marketing the web-app proved much more difficult…

Walkthrough tutorial for a match made in heaven. — Building and maintaining documentation pages, help sections, or knowledge bases can be a daunting task. We wanted the canvis.app knowledge base to fit a few criteria: fast and lightweight, search-optimized, affordable to host, portable, branded and well-designed, and most importantly: easy to organize and edit between non-technical team members. I…