About CommunityMap.ca

CommunityMap.ca is a free, open educational resource for teaching and learning Community Mapping. The full textbook (12 parts, 62 chapters) is published here as a clean, citable, no-paywall read.

This site is a learning resource. It is not a platform — there are no accounts, no submissions, no inventory of real-world communities to claim or edit. You read here.

If you want to practice community mapping — drop a pin, join a real community, add a place, run a workshop — that lives outside this site. Go do it where the actual work happens.

What's covered

• Part I. Foundations of Community Mapping
• Part II. Mapping Community Assets
• Part III. Mapping Needs, Gaps, and Vulnerabilities
• Part IV. Methods and Research Design
• Part V. Technology, GIS, and Digital Tools
• Part VI. Ethics, Governance, and Power
• Part VII. Analysis and Interpretation
• Part VIII. Applications
• Part IX. Case Studies
• Part X. Building the Knowledgebase
• Part XI. Teaching, Learning, Practice
• Part XII. Future of Community Mapping

How to cite

Until the textbook is finalised in a published edition, cite individual chapters using their URL on this site as the source. Example:

Chapter 1, "What Is Community Mapping?", retrieved from
https://communitymap.ca/textbook/part-i-foundations/what-is-community-mapping/