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Building community in your area? Check out the newly-launched Community Organizers Handbook! Everything you need to start and grow a NetSquared Local group or any other community-powered program.

Sustainable Communities

Community Mapping Network (CMN)

Challenges Entered:

A wealth of natural resource information integrated with local data and knowledge, presented to meet specific area of interest or community requirements.

What else have you done in this area of work?

CMN has over 60 customized web mapping applications tailored to meet the needs of many communities of interest. These applications are address national bio-regional and specific community needs. CMN hosts the first (2005) and possibly still the only fully interactive GIS based "Green Map" instance http://www.shim.bc.ca/atlases/greenmap/Index.cfm

Since 2000, CMN has been building a diverse collaboration with stewardship organizations with other ENGOs and with local governments to help change the way we care for our local environments. CMN believes freely sharing data about the "commons" is a critical step in avoiding the "tragedy of the commons"