Shareabouts is a mapping tool to gather crowd sourced public input. Use it to collect suggested locations and comments, in a social, engaging process.
For users, Shareabouts has a simple, fun interface that makes it easy to add your voice to the map: suggest a location, add a comment, support other suggestions and share locations with your friends and neighbors.
For project managers, Shareabouts is flexible and powerful, making it easy to customize for many different uses. Shareabouts gets out of the way, letting you focus on getting points on the map.
Explore a demo at demo.shareabouts.org.
Some ways you can use Shareabouts:
For users,
For designers and developers,
For project managers during a project,
Contact us to discuss a configured Shareabouts.
Shareabouts has been used to map proposed locations for bike share stations (a couple of times), get input on street clutter, collect locations where bike and walk infrastructure is needed, and map favorite lunch spots. We’re keeping track here.
Shareabouts is an open source project. That means the code is available for you to download for free.
Because it’s open source, the process of creating Shareabouts is wide open to your contributions. You can suggest ideas, try our features, and get involved in contributing code. Developers will probably want to start with our project wiki. We discuss development on the mailing list.
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