Shareabouts is an online mapping tool to gather crowd sourced public input in a social and engaging process. Using Shareabouts, people can drop a pin on a map to provide ideas, suggestions, and comments for planning and design issues. It complements and extends the reach of your existing or future project by collecting input from the people who know the city best. And as a mobile-friendly application, Shareabouts makes it easy to add input on the go.
All of our documentation is is our doc directory. Use it to learn more about:
- the architecture
- local setup
- testing the source
- interface configuration
- custom themes
- how to deploy to DotCloud
- upgrading from an older version
Where is Sharabouts going? Check our roadmap for details of possble future features we've identified.
- gathering usage data for a city park
- mapping ATM surcharges
- surveying bike commuters about parking at stations
- tracking and describing community assets
In the spirit of free software, everyone is encouraged to help improve this project.
Here are some ways you can contribute:
- by joining our developers discussion list: http://groups.google.com/group/shareabouts-dev
- by taking a look at our pipeline in the public tracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/398973
- by using alpha, beta, and prerelease versions
- by reporting bugs
- by suggesting new features
- by writing or editing documentation
- by writing specifications
- by writing code (no patch is too small: fix typos, add comments, clean up inconsistent whitespace)
- by refactoring code
- by resolving issues
- by reviewing patches
Shareabouts is a project of the Civic Works group at OpenPlans.