Interactive Maps
Interactive maps have immense potential for promoting sites and services, as well as helping people to visualise proposals and make their views known. They are an ideal means of gathering site-specific data, understanding differences in perception and stimulating debate as a basis for joint planning and decision making.
Users are able to navigate around the map and obtain information by clicking on map features. In some cases, users can also add their own comments and data to the map, tagging them to specific locations and features.
Interactive maps can be continually adapted to provide an ongoing information service and consultation process. Aerial photography, video clips, sounds, photos and 3D visualisations can all be incorporated to build up a series of images of an area from a variety of perspectives.
Countryscape has developed interactive maps for clients including government agencies, local authorities, community groups and private businesses. Examples include the Countryside Agency’s National Database of Landscape Character Assessment; the Guardian Media Group’s ‘ManchesterOnline’ map of Manchester; as well as maps produced as part of local history/interpretation projects, on behalf of Manchester City Council and Groundwork, amongst others.
