Scenarios
Mark-a-Spot is suitable for various applications. Due to the open architecture, there are almost no limits. Instead of expensive individual software development, extensive GIS or CMS systems/integrations, Mark-a-spot enables to categorize recorded data and to display it georeferenced via map. Google Maps and OpenStreetMaps – both familiar and known for its usability – make users feel “at home” and use the site with regards to its content. Here are some examples:
Participation platform/ Spatial analysis
As part of an inter-municipal project, urban district A in cooperation with rural districts B and C want to learn, where citizens see priorities in urban and regional development.
Results and recommendations are categorized, displayed and described on a map via Mark-a-Spot.
Visitors/Users can comment on and rate the recommendations. Thus the decision makers of the participating municipalities will be given an orientation, what measures are to be treated with priority.
Participation platform “Ideas for model city”
Similar projects have been initiated by several parties all over germany.
Participation platform “Room without barriers”
A Counselling Centre for people with handicaps uses Mark-a-Spot as a platform to display and present barriers in public spaces. Mark-a-Spot easily can be changed into a dialogue platform about urban weaknesses. Standard categories can be changed into
- to see, feel (traffic lights, road curbs /kerbs, hindrances, lack of lightning)
- to reach (steps, range/operating distance, blocked ways)
- mobility (lack of disabled parking spaces, blocked ways)
- understanding (missing information, guidance or assistance)
By using Mark-a-Spot, Policy Makers get cues for future investments concerning barrier free public spaces. Also, hot spots can be easily recognized and analyzed due to their needed improvement.
Mark-a-Spot has reached a level of accesibility which enables handicapped people to use the platform likewise.
