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Coauthoring the opposite of crime maps

Heartcrossing500

Reading MLPodcast‘s interview with Platial.Com Co-Founder Di-Ann Eisnor, what excites me about Platial is the opportunity for anyone to map what they LOVE about their neighborhoods and communities.  As housing markets slide into downcycles across the country, consumers will make homebuying decisions less on financial return and more on quality of life.  That’s where interactive, community mapping comes in.

But the transparency that Web 2.0 enables also comes with a "dark side," so here’s a challenge / invitation: 

It’s discouraging for me to see how much attention the Chicago Crime map is getting, not because it isn’t a brilliant web 2.0 application but because it focuses on the worst of humanity.  Some of us have begun to talk about creating the "opposite of crime maps."  If there are dozens of types of crime that can be mapped, shouldn’t there be at least that many ways to map "social capital" or good old-fashioned neighborliness?

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