CMC Welcome
About Our Proposed Resource Centre
Our proposed community mapping service unit, "the Community Mapping Centre (CMC)", would be a community-university project involving the University of Victoria's Geography Department, Green Map System (New York), and Geomemes Research Inc.
The CMC will be a key node in the Common Ground Community Mapping Network, and will house archival material from past local community mapping projects, including reports and images from 10+ years of Common Ground work.
Note: Our "Resource Centre" is at the needs assessment and proposal stage, and we are actively exploring interest in the service unit by undertaking small pilot projects and by building this website. A draft service plan is being circulated. Support for community mapping activities on campus has come from the University of Victoria's Faculty of Social Sciences, Campus Planning & Sustainability, and the Office of Community-Based Research.
This proposed Resource Centre will support student learning through community engagement. We want to help students explore the theory and practice of sustainable local development. Our draft mandate:
- Host the UVic Campus Green Map (Web Map)
- Support the teaching of community mapping on and off campus
- Provide experiential learning opportunities for UVic students
- Support extra-UVic community efforts to create maps of local assets and visions
- Support sustainability planning on the UVic campus
