Successful planning relies on getting everyone on the same page. This phase is about moving beyond static PDFs and technical jargon to create an interactive project story that residents can actually relate to. By turning your draft plans into a digital experience, you make it easier for people to understand how proposals affect their daily lives, which leads to more informed and constructive feedback. here's how you can do just that, both in your survey and your project page.
In your survey:
Allow people to explore the plan on the map
Instead of static maps, use Map overlays to overlay draft plans onto the real-world context. Use Pop-up Maps to provide clickable details on specific project components.
Learn how to create a pop-up map
Collect georeferenced feedback on your plan
If you have the plan as an image, you can georeference it on your own or in-app to enable spatial data collection. By giving the image real-world coordinates, every pin dropped or comment made by a respondent is tied to exact GIS coordinates on your draft.
Learn how to georeference a plan on a map
Ask respondents to pin their comments on an image (without georeferencing)
You can also use a background type called 'Interactive image' to make any image file commentable. The big difference to georeferencing the image on a map is that the comments will only be analyzable in Maptionnaire and cannot be exported to GIS software.
Learn how to use an interactive image background
On your Project Pages:
Establish a digital project hub
Use the Maptionnaire Project Page buider Pages to create a standalone landing page for your project plan. This serves as the all-in-one information page for your project, where you can host all engagement activities and documents you want to show the stakeholders.
Explore a project landing page demo
Visualize the process
In the Project Page, a great way to show residents exactly where they are in the decision-making cycle and what milestones are coming next, is to use the Process timeline element.
Allow visitors to react to what they read
Present different options and outline problems that the planners are grappling with – and ask visitors to tell what they think without having to leave the page. You can do this by creating a survey with the questions and embedding it onto the page. This allows residents to react immediately to the information they have just read.
Learn how to embed a questionnaire on your Project Page
You can also embed the mapping portion of a survey and make the comments people leave public. Visitors can leave their own comments, read what others think, and even up- or downvote them!