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Local Commons

The living map

One place. Many perspectives.

Your organization keeps its own work. Your community shares the map.

Québec City, Québec · andrzej · Sep 3, 2017

Toronto, Ontario · syedzia123 · Feb 5, 2017

Living map

See the place as it is today

One shared scene. The town stays underneath. Hours, events, works, and neighbour notes sit on top. Search any place. Residents, groups, and towns use the same map.

  1. A town you recognizeStreets, buildings, and listings on one geography. Not another directory on a blank map.
  2. The day on the clockScrub Today. Morning, tonight, and what already happened stay on the same scene.
  3. What is liveHours, events, works, weather, and neighbour signals paint over the town. Each group stays distinct.
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Example scene · Waterloo

Together on one place

Collaboration on one map

Parties keep their own listings. Local Commons does not silo them. Each group manages its data. Everyone sees it on one map.

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.

The washes are a symbol, not something groups draw. Collaboration is 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 organization

Who it is for

One shared map. Four ways in.

Local Commons is the living map of a place. Residents, visitors, businesses, and municipalities each get their view. Nobody gets a second map.

For residents

Hours, a closure, and a neighbour note sit on the street you already know.

Today on this block

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 on the place people already look at. Your pin stays on the same street.

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

Livewherever you are

The map is happening now

Open it from home, from the street, or from another town. You see this place in real time.

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.

Place day
10:00 AMMorningScrubbing
5 this day
0 near this hour

Engagement

What people mark stays on the place

Engage by location, not by a feed. The year stays on the map. Read it for the whole community, a group, an event, or a place.

Signal the street

Residents, tourists, and neighbours mark what is happening on the map. You see your surroundings, not a scrolling feed.

A local timeline

The place keeps a year of activity. Your group, and the whole community, sit on one clock you can move through.

Recognition on your profile

A daily photo, thanks for a local addition, a recommendation, or a campaign can unlock presence on your profile.

Impact for organizers

Organizations and event organizers see how locals and visitors meet their work and pins on the same map.

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.

See Signal on the mapSign in to contribute

Civic layers

The same pack in every country

Weather, roads, waste, and the rest sit on one map. A country fills the slots it can prove. Provinces, states, regions, and towns inherit. Not a stack of apps.

Weather

Environment Canada alerts for the town on screen.

Construction

Roads from the country pack. Provinces and states swap sources on the same layer.

Fire dangerComing

Risk on the same scene.

Events

What is on today, tied to the clock.

TrafficComing

Movement and conditions across town.

Waste

Pickup days from the regional operator. On where a source exists.

TransitComing

Routes, stops, and getting around.

An approved marketplaceComing

Partners and developers can submit a widget. We review it before a community can add it. More ways to experience the place, without an unmoderated app store.

Any 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

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Local Commons · Communities and organizations on one shared map