For residents
Hours, a closure, and a neighbour note sit on the street you already know.
Today on this block
The living map
See what is happening in your community. Take part in it.
Free for residents and visitors. Businesses, organizations, and towns use it to engage people and see the results.
For organizations: run a campaign and see who cameQuébec City, Québec · andrzej · Sep 3, 2017
Toronto, Ontario · syedzia123 · Feb 5, 2017
Already here
Your town is already on the map
Businesses, events, and civic updates are on the map before anyone signs up. Residents get something useful today. Organizations start with something to build on.
- Places you recognizeStreets, buildings, businesses, and amenities, already listed for your town.
- What is on and what is changingEvents, road work, weather, and waste days, from the sources your town already publishes.
- The day on the clockSee what is on now, what happened earlier, and what is coming next on the same map.
Who it is for
Useful for people. Valuable for the groups that serve them.
Residents and visitors use it free, every day. Businesses, events, and municipalities reach them on the same place. One shared map. Nobody gets a second map.
For visitors
Arrive and see the town as it is. The market, the shops, and what is open share one geography.
The market is on
For businesses and events
Put an offer or a gathering where people already look, then see who came.
Offer on the shared map
For municipalities
Publish works and conditions on the map the community already uses. Not a separate notice board.
Works and weather on the place
Livefor residents and visitors
What is on today, and what is next
Open it from home, from the street, or from another town. Scroll the day and watch the place change.
Events
When an event begins, it shows on the map. When it is over, it comes off. The pin follows the real start and end.
On when it starts · off when it ends
Businesses
Store hours decide what you see. Open shops stay in colour. Closed shops go grey, so you know before you go.
Hours on the listing · colour when open
The place over time
This is a live map timeline. Communities mark what happens through the year, on the same geography.
One place · a year you can move through
Events
More than a pin
The event sits on the shared map. Scroll to walk onto the grounds. Agenda follows the clock, so you see what is on now.
Participation
Signal your neighbours
Signal is Waze for communities. Drop a pin on what is happening so people nearby can see it. Looking around is free. Sign in to write.
- Look aroundOpen
- Drop a SignalSign in
- Guest writesClosed
Ping the street
Mark a closure, a hazard, or what you see. Neighbours get it on the same map.
For today, not forever
A Signal lives about 24 hours, then leaves. It is a note about now, not a new listing.
Recognition for helping
Helpfulness grows your presence. Level and XP are not spendable.
For organizations
Turn a place on the map into something people do
A business, group, or town picks a place already on the map and adds a QR code, a check-in, or a stamp card. Add a deal or a reward. People show up in person. You see who came.
Pick a place already on the map
Start from a listing people already know. Nothing to draw.
Choose how people take part
A QR code to scan, a GPS check-in, or a digital stamp card. Add a deal or a reward.
Publish. People show up.
It goes live on the shared map. Every scan, visit, and stamp is a check-in at that place.
See what happened
People and check-ins for the campaign in your report, with a CSV export.
Results
See what your work moved
Every check-in, Signal, and campaign visit is recorded on the place. Read it for one campaign, one event, one group, or the whole community.
Impact for organizers
See how many people took part in each campaign, where, and when.
A local timeline
The place keeps a year of activity on one clock you can move through.
Export what happened
Locations, people, and check-ins from the same record, ready to share with a board or a funder.
Recognition for people
Residents who help build presence on their profile. Not points to spend.
One shared place
Every group keeps its own work
Each group keeps its own listings, credited to them. Local Commons does not silo them. Everyone sees them on one map, not five separate apps.
One group keeps its listings
A municipality manages its works. Those pins stay theirs. They show on the shared map.
City data · city listings
Another group keeps theirs
A chamber manages its directory on the same street. Different owner. Same geography.
Chamber data · chamber listings
Shown together. Still owned apart.
Each group stays credited for its own information. One map, not one master list.
Two datasets · one map
- Municipality
- Organization
- Service club
- Creator
- Influencer
- Neighbours
This is how your group would show up on the same place.
Bring your organizationAny city. Any community.
Ready for every place
Local Commons is set up for towns and cities. Open a community that already has people on it. Or talk to us about a pilot.
Populated communities
Upcoming pilots
Coming soon
Explore the platform
- Explore communitiesBrowse towns on the living map and open a place.
- How it worksLook around free, sign in to contribute, orgs keep their layers.
- Product newsRelease notes, map updates, and tutorials.
- About Local CommonsCommunity awareness on one shared map.
- ContactChambers, BIAs, municipalities, and community orgs.