• 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 a graphic created by Drew.

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

Here's a poster summarising why we believe network building is needed at different levels in London