Maps. Wonderful things. From Googlemaps to scribbled-on Ordnance Survey maps: from sophisticated GIS maps to huge maps of the area that people can stick stuff to, maps are a fantastic tool for bringing the area you are working in to life. One of the Ingredients of Transition is called ‘Meaningful Maps’, and it looks at the importance of using maps in both serious and playful ways. For example, the picture above is Transition Hereford’s ‘Mappa Sustainability’, modelled on the 1300s Hereford Mappa Mundi, the largest medieval map still in existence, which was exhibited in the town in order to gather peoples’ sustainability projects and stories. Does your Transition initiative use maps? How? Please tell me your stories….
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