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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.

Digital Community Engagement: Unlocking Local Knowledge 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....

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! 👇

Webinar: Community-centric Approach for Master Planning Discover strategies for streamlining community engagement projects with a digital map-based solution.

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.

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:

Who Makes Planning Choices? 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...

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:

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

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! 👋

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:

A Community Engagement Plan that Involved 45000+ Residents Read on how the State of Jalisco, Mexico developed an effective community engagement plan that involved 45000+ residents and stakeholders.

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!

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

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.

Looking for an urban planning podcast? Good news — there is a podcasting niche for us too 💜

Here are 10 urban planning, design, and smart city podcasts that we at Maptionnaire enjoy a lot. Give them a try this summer!

Here they are, in no particular order:
1. Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for People
2. The Smart Community Podcast
3. Smart in the City – The BABLE Podcast
4. URBCAST – a Podcast about Cities
5. The Urbanist
6. ISOCARP - International Society of City and Regional Planners Spotlight
7. PlanningXChange Podcast
8. APA Podcast
9. Strong Towns Podcast
10. Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

Any of your favourites missing? Share your top planning podcasts in the comments, and we will update the list. ✍️

Did you know that Maptionnaire’s citizen engagement platform is also used in multiple research projects? Here is a spotlight on Kamyar Hasanzadeh from Aalto University (which is Maptionnaire’s alma mater, by the way).

Kamyar uses Maptionnaire to examine what people actually want from their living environments. With our platform, he can ask participants to map what they experience in different kinds of locations and how they use public spaces.

And here is a twist: Kamyar also studies how one can anonymize this geolocated data (for example, when people indicate their commute routes or homes) by adding a certain amount of noise to the location coordinates. When data is anonymized, it can be openly shared with other researchers.

Watch the video to get more insights into this research: https://youtu.be/dSIQEO_g4hI.

Kamyar Hasanzadeh: Insights on anonymising and opening PPGIS data Kamyar Hasanzadeh, a postdoctoral researcher from the Aalto University Department of Built Environment, was one of two researchers chosen via an open call by...

Maptionnaire is a citizen engagement platform that provides planners with tools for collecting data with surveys, analysing results in GIS format, and communicating about city development projects. Maptionnaire users can create custom webpages, surveys, and interactive maps that are linked to geospatial data widely used in urban planning, environmental management, and city development.

Find out more about maptionnaire here: toposmagazine.com/maptionnaire/

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It’s a holiday season! Maptionnaire Team is sending our warmest greetings to you.

As 2022 is (almost) a wrap, here are five memorable and important we’ve achieved.

🎄1

Welcome Sakari Ellonnen as the new CTO of Maptionniare! Timo Rüppell, who has been with the company for six years, goes on a new adventure in 2023.

🎄2

In October, we had a Maptionniare Breakfast in Helsinki, where our users and friends shared their participatory planning projects. Greetings to all the participants! 👋

🎄3

Maarit Kahila, CEO of Maptionnaire, was a guest on the Smart in The City Podcast, together with Johanna Palomäki from Lahti.

🎄4

This year, Maptionnaire has reached a new benchmark: our community engagement platform is used in 40 countries! We will continue sharing examples and expertise of our users from around the world.

🎄5

You can now run Participatory Budgeting projects with Maptionnaire — this is our most proud development of 2022. Of course, our PB solution comes with a spatial twist, GIS datasets, and an opportunity to mitigate planning conflicts.

As a present from our team to you and the whole Maptionnaire Community, we’ve donated to UNICEF to support the children of Ukraine.

What are the five memorable events for you from 2022? We’d be happy to know!

Did you know that community engagement costs 90% less when done online?🤔 Because the cost per engaged person is much lower when compared to in-person engagement.

This is just one reason for handling the community engagement process digitally.

Some other economic and societal benefits:
⚬ Planning projects can be implemented quicker
⚬ You reach more people and more diverse groups
⚬ Feedback management is easier and less resourceful
⚬ You increase transparency and good governance
⚬ A SaaS community engagement platform costs 75% less when compared to tailor-made services

And many more details over here:
https://maptionnaire.com/blog-list/benefits-of-online-community-engagement-roi

Community engagement surveys come in so many shapes and sizes.

But how do you decide if this question should be open-ended? Or is it better to spice things up with gamified voting?

Here is a little guide for you.

And for more tips on community engagement surveys, check this article: https://maptionnaire.com/blog-list/design-community-engagement-survey-questions

What are the concrete ways of creating sustainable built environments, clean energy systems, and resilient cities?

The concepts are there, but the exact steps are often unclear — and we need to find solutions together.

Emerging Concepts for Sustainable Built Environment is a virtual conference that brings together researchers, industry experts, and planning practitioners to share their experiences and current solutions.

On November 24, Maarit Kahila will talk about how Maptionnaire provides insights to create citizen-centric changes in urban environments.

Here are more details about the event and registration: https://www.ril.fi/en/events/sbefin-2022.html.

See you there!

SBEFIN 2022 - RIL - Finnish Association of Civil Engineers Organizers want to pay attention to environmental aspects and thus the SBEfin2022 Helsinki Conference will be organized virtually. 

Maptionnaire has been chosen among the top 50 companies on the Smart City scene.

Happy to be working together towards driving a better urban life!

Meet us at the National Planning Conference in Birmingham on November 17-18!

Maarit Kahila, Anna Broberg, and Hannu Stewart will be there to answer all your questions about community engagement in town planning.

Looking forward to meeting other industry leaders shaping town planning, in the UK and globally.

Thanks to the Planning Portal and the Royal Town Planning Institute for organizing this!

If you’re also going and would like to meet the Maptionnaire team, drop us a line!

How can PPGIS help solve challenges in the Arctic region?

🌰 In a nutshell, by enabling collaboration and co-creation between residents and stakeholders.

🤓 Swipe to learn more.

In our recent poll of planners and city admins, 45% believe that convincing the organization to run a Participatory Budgeting process is the main challenge. 40% thinks it’s reaching out to the community.

In the upcoming webinar, we’ll help you to tackle these issues.
❓What are the key benefits of PB — and how can you use those to win your organization internally?
❓How to ensure that the community knows about the PB process?
❓How to make the process more diverse and inclusive?

Join us on October 25! Registration link in bio.

Maptionnairen aamiaistilaisuus lähestyy! Tässä vielä pääasiat:

Missä ja milloin: 13.10.2022 klo 8.30-11.30 (tilaisuuteen voi saapua ja sieltä lähteä milloin vain aikataulullesi sopii), osoitteessa Fredrikinkatu 55a, viides kerros.

Mitä on ohjelmassa: kahvia ja teetä, croissantteja + muuta aamiaispurtavaa sekä tietenkin mielenkiintoista keskustelua asukasosallisuudesta!

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Parempia kaupunkeja rakentamassa: Kokemuksia tehokkaasta asukasosallisuustyöstä
8.30: Ovet aukeavat, aamiaistarjoilu alkaa
9.00: Tervetuliaissanat Maptionnairelta
9.10: Pilvi Nummi (Aalto-yliopisto), Hybridiosallistumisen työkalupaletti Espoon Viiskorvessa
9.30: Arttu Antila (Vantaan kaupunki), OsallistuvaVantaa.fi – Vantaan digitaalinen osallisuusympäristö
9.50: Mari Karjalainen (Oulun kaupunki), Kuntalaispalautetta Oulun Hartaanselänrannan aluesuunnitelmista
10.10: Elina Puhjo (Ramboll), Miten suunnittelemme parempia kaupunkeja Maptionnairella
10.30: Sanna Virta (Lahden kaupunki), - osallistuva budjetointi Lahden kaupungissa
10.50: Hannu Stewart (Maptionnaire), Osallistuva budjetointi Maptionnairella
11.10: Loppusanat, keskustelua
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Nähdään aamiaisella! 🔗 https://maptionnaire.com/maptionnaire-breakfast-2022

Jos sinulla on kysyttävää, niin laitathan viestiä osoitteeseen [email protected]

Look, Maptionnaire is on TV! 📺

Tune into Ramboll’s Morning TV on October 6, where Anna Broberg, COO and Co-founder of Maptionnaire, will discuss community engagement and its role in urban planning.

More details here: https://c.ramboll.com/fi/livcy-aamu-tv

Suomen elinvoimaisimmat asuinympäristöt 2022 – Rambollin Aamu-tv 6.10. Tule kuulolle 6.10. klo 8.30!

Maptionnaire is coming home! Namely to Aalto University, the alma mater for Maarit Kahila and Anna Broberg.

On 5 October, RECIPROCITY Project's stakeholders are visiting Aalto to learn more about its contribution to Mobility Solutions.

Maptionnaire will be there among other successful academic spin-offs ✌️Excited to showcase our portfolio of mobility & transportation projects.

Looking forward to it!

P.S. You can also explore our mobility projects here: https://maptionnaire.com/use-case-transportation-mobility

"During a public engagement process, how can we reduce unobjective statements to a minimum in the digital space and emphasize the positive? We have found a good solution with a map-based online tool.”

Our friends at Gruppe F share their experiences of handling public participation with Maptionnaire.

You can read their story in English and in German.
🇬🇧 https://gruppef.com/en/online-mapping-intuitive-and-accessible/
🇩🇪 https://gruppef.com/online-mapping/

Engaging community is key to planning liveable and lovable cities. This dialog wit residents also helps planners to find resilient and sustainable solutions.

We're glad to share our thoughts and expertise in and with All Things Urban — a community of likeminded urbanists.

All Things Urban - What is Community Engagement and Why is It Crucial for Urban Planning?

You’ve designed a fantastic community engagement survey for your planning project and got enough of responses. What’s next?

You’ve got it right — data analysis.
And there’re several options here:

1️⃣ You can export your raw data into a GIS or statistical analysis tool.
You can then build awesome visualisations that do so well for reporting. But it only works if you have the software and the talent in the teem to master it. Otherwise, you’re left with a box full of juicy data and no way to unlock it.

2️⃣ You can analyse and report within the community engagement platform where you’ve made the survey.
With Maptionnaire, you can apply filters and analyse responses without leaving the platform.
What’s the transit preferences of adults over 60? Where do people from this district prefer to take their leisure walks? The answers are already there.
You can then easily bring them into visualisations that can go straight into your reporting.

🚶Get some inspiration from the project where Helsinki studied walkability patterns of its residents: https://maptionnaire.com/best-participation-practices/map-walkability-survey-tool

And if you’re still wondering how to nail that survey design, revisit our survey design webinar: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/6644510820495546374

👋Waving at you from Egersund! This statue is made out of anorthosite – a rock that you can find on the moon and here in Egersund! Maptionnaire Team is here for annual meeting, finally meeting in-person with our colleagues and partners, also to discuss the interactive uses of .

Oletko Helsingissä 13.10? Tule Maptionnairen aamiaiselle! ☕

Aamupalatapahtumamme tuo yhteen ystävämme ja yhteistyökumppanimme, jotka työskentelevät kansalaisosallisuuden parissa. Tapahtuma on oiva tilaisuus verkostoitumiseen ja uuden oppimiseen, sillä tilaisuudessa kuulet käyttäjiemme kokemuksia erilaisista osallisuusprojekteista.

Puhujina ovat mm. Oulun ja Vantaan edustajat, jotka kertovat kaupunkisuunnitteluun ja osallistuvaan budjetointiin liittyvistä hankkeistaan, sekä asiantuntijat Rambollilta ja Aalto-yliopistosta. Ja tietenkin kerromme myös Maptionnairen uusimmista tuulista!

Tuore kahvi, croissantit ja muu aamiaispurtava odottavat sinua klo 8.30 eteenpäin. Ohjelma starttaa klo 9, ja lopettelemme 11.30 maissa. Voit piipahtaa tapahtumassa silloin, kuin omalle aikataulullesi sopii.

Tapahtuma on maksuton, m***a ilmoittauduthan täällä: maptionnaire.com/maptionnaire-breakfast-2022

For our English-speaking friends!

On October 13, we invite you to our Maptionnaire Breakfast in Helsinki. This event event brings together friends and colleagues who practice community engagement. You’ll have a chance to network and learn from participatory planning projects done in the recent years with Maptionnaire in Finland.

Please register to attend at maptionnaire.com/maptionnaire-breakfast-2022. Then we’ll make sure to get enough of croissants!

The event will be in Finnish, but there’ll be more coming in English as well, so stay tuned!