Community Assets for People Mapping Project

The Community Assets for People Mapping Project (CAP-Map), is a collaborative effort between UNH Cooperative Extension, UNH's Complex Systems Research Center, Research Computing, and the New Hampshire Endowment for Health.

Its purpose is to help New Hampshire communities, organizations and agencies share and access information about a range of community and regional resources. The ultimate goal of the project is to help any group or organization that wants to share information about a particular resource, to do so on the web. This information would then be displayed in map form and be accessible to anyone who wants to learn more about that particular resource over the Internet.

If you would like to learn more about CAP-Map, there will be a demonstration from 10 to noon at the Holiday Inn in Concord on June 20. At the demonstration, participants will see how this GIS-based system could ultimately help them to:

• Make unmapped data mappable, even by those without GIS experience.
• Share information about resources or data their organization maintains.
• Convey complex information in a visual, easy-to-understand format.
• Explore relationships between community or statewide assets/resources and demographic data.

In addition to demonstrating how CAP-Map works, we seek feedback on how you might use the system, as well as how it could be improved and implemented. For more information about the project or the demonstration on June 20, contact Charlie French at charlie.french@unh.edu

Posted June 4, 2007