Putting your data on a London map just got a whole lot easier.

Join us for the launch of our new, free, online mapping tool, and its forerunner Community Lens, designed by and for social impact organisations.

Increasing numbers of small charities and community organisations are using postcode or demographic data to guide their activities in London and the UK. There are a range of free and affordable mapping tools and applications that can help with this.

But we spotted a gap: a lack of easy-to-use, entry level tools. Ones that could both convert postcode data to wards, boroughs, and other geographies, and overlay other useful open datasets for comparison.

Superhighways, Datawise London, Hetco Design, DataKind UK, Catalyst and Data Collective have teamed up to create simple, open-source online tools that make mapping data easier.

This event is your chance to preview the tools, tell us what you think, and discover other tools that can inform your service delivery, help you to spot gaps and trends, and demonstrate your impact.

What we’ll cover:

• Demo of the new tool and Community Lens
• Ask the mapping experts
• Have a go yourself
• Discover other free / affordable mapping tools available
• Share with your peers: what have you found useful and what else do you need?

Meet the new mapping tools

Our new colour-shading mapper is a very easy-to-use, open-source tool that lets charities and community groups create choropleth maps from their own postcode data, including at London borough or Ward level. Without the fuss of converting postcodes beforehand.

Community Lens is an open-source tool that matches open datasets such as the Indices of Multiple Deprivation to postcode areas you work in, to help you learn more about the needs of local communities.

Have your geo mapping data questions answered by experts

The event includes a surgery session for you to raise any questions you have on mapping tools generally. We’ll have an expert panel on hand to help answer any questions and facilitate knowledge sharing between us all.

More about Datawise London

This training event forms part of the Datawise London programme, funded by City Bridge Trust as part of the Cornerstone Fund. London’s community data is one of our greatest assets. Our mission at Datawise is to help you unlock it.