• See also Living Maps Review Spring 2018 edition, with a paper by Drew Mackie and David Wilcox explaining social networks and how to map them. Download here.

In an article about creating a map of London mappers and network builders, Drew Mackie details a process of using the front-end Sumapp survey tool, and Kumu mapping software.

That produced a map which could be could be:

• easily updated by participants, through the live survey links
• analysed in a variety of ways, and used to build a network
• used by participants to do their own network building
• displayed both as a network and geographic map

Here's a more general explanation in a couple of graphics created by Drew. Input to the map can be through an online survey, and also through data collected by interviews and workshops.

This creates the map online, which can be displayed as a network or geographic map, and then used for a variety of actities.

In this poster Drew summarises how a map may be used.