This article gives you tips for the phase of the planning process where you have multiple options for a site or project, and want to ask the public to weigh in on which direction is best. By using Maptionnaire’s interactive tools in your survey, you can move away from abstract descriptions and let residents visualize exactly how different options would function in a real-world context.
Scenario Comparison with the Map Legend
Use separate map layers to present multiple design options or draft plans. People can toggle different scenarios on and off from the map legend, helping them visualize how various layouts, such as transit routes or building placements, impact the landscape.
How to set this up: Adding and managing map layers
Interactive Option Selection with Pop-up Maps
Gather localized preferences by making specific areas or features on your plan clickable. When a respondent selects an option, a pop-up appears with detailed descriptions, images, or feedback questions, ensuring they understand each design before making a choice.
How to set this up: Using the Pop-up Map element
Visual Selection with images as answer options
Present a gallery of different design concepts side-by-side using renderings, sketches, or site photos. Rspondents can then choose their preferred aesthetic or functional layout by clicking on the image that resonates with them.
How to set this up: Images as answer options
Prioritization with the Geobudgeting Tool
Understand community priorities by assigning costs to different improvements across the map. By giving residents a virtual budget to "spend," you force the same realistic trade-offs that planners face, resulting in a clear ranking of valued investments.
How to set this up: Geobudgeting & Budgeting element
Displaying options on Pages and integrating questions
You can also display your different options on Maptionnaire pages. Visitors can press on the options to get a comprehensive idea of each plan. If you want to immediately know what people think about the plans, you can integrate a questionnaire on the page to ask one or two, why not a full set of questions regarding the options.
- Use the grid-tool to create a navigable landing page.
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Embed a questionnaire on a landing page and set it up so that visitors can answer your question regarding the options. Here's how to embed a questionnaire on a page.
How to: Link pages together to create a website (Pages menu/Grid/Carousel) &
Embed a survey or parts of it (e.g. mapping) to a page (Iframe)