Community engagement made simple.
Unlock Inclusive & Efficient Urban Planning with MapTalk
MapTalk provides an interactive platform for community engagement and collaborative decision-making. We bridge the gap between local insights and impactful action, ensuring every voice is heard. MapTalk is thé civic engagement software for bringing your community's ideas to life and shaping the future together.
Faced with community engagement challenges?
Outdated Methods?
Traditional engagement is outdated and lacks interaction. Modern challenges need smarter, more responsive methods.
Delayed Decisions?
Slow feedback processing leads to stalling development.
High Costs, Low Turnout?
Investing in public forums that don’t resonate with the community can result in empty rows and wasted resources.
Data Dilemmas?
Securing sensitive community insights is a high-stakes game.
Resistance to Development?
Without visible, transparent processes, communities often resist changes, perceiving them as top-down decisions.
Sparse Attendance?
Community meetings fail to draw the crowd, sidelining key voices.
Lost in Feedback?
Forget the frustration of scattered community feedback.
Missing Perspectives?
Feel the burden of engaging a diverse audience? Most methods are clunky and don’t provide the clarity your project deserves.
Streamline your community insight with the MapTalk platform
Quick & effective
Using MapTalk is efficient & streamlines the feedback process. Create a map-based form and deploy it in any project where you need feedback quickly.
Simple for everyone
User-friendly by design, MapTalk offers a straightforward experience in filling out the forms, without sacrificing depth. It's the secure, accessible tool that aligns with your community's privacy needs.
Insight in support
Visualize community feedback with intuitive maps and dashboards. Understand the 'why' behind each response to shape smarter urban development.
Engagement at scale
All comments are displayed on a map. You’ll see the spatial distribution of replies, as well as their individual suggestions & explanations in pop-ups. It’s possible to download these as an Excel or Shapefile. If necessary, you can use the pop-ups to respond back to comments and label the status of each.
Proven solution
MapTalk has been succesfully deployed by government organizations, architects & consultancy firms in several projects, as seen in the resident’s participation in the redevelopment of this neighbourhood in Ede. For more specific examples visit the blog.
Our clients are as enthusiastic about MapTalk as we are.
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"Using MapTalk, we got more reactions from residents. Especially the younger demographic's input was notably high."
Judith Meekes
Project leader
Gemeente Deventer -
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"Our client was very pleased with the transparency and open method of gathering information using MapTalk."
Maartje Scholten
Project leader ecology
Ecogroen -
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"We used MapTalk to gather reactions during online info-sessions. All input was very valuable."
Jan van de Wouw
Environmental Manager
Province of Gelderland
Discover how MapTalk can transform your projects.
Want to know more first? Contact us if you have any questions.
Frequently asked questions
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Using the simple editor, setting up a MapTalk project is straightforward. However, we understand you may not have time to do this or simply prefer us to set it up for you. Contact us to discuss your preferences.
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MapTalk offers flexible pricing based on your project's size and complexity, ensuring value for organizations of all sizes. Both affordable subscriptions fitting to your organization’s needs, aswell as plans for singular projects.
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MapTalk is built to WCAG-standards by an ISO-9001 & ISO-27001 certified company.
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No, integration is seamless with MapTalk, minimizing the need for additional technical support.. Our platform is designed to work well with existing systems, using exports to Shapefiles and Excel. The software is built using standardized components, meaning it’s easy to develop custom solutions and web integrations aswell.
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Yes, MapTalk’s versatility allows it to be used for a variety of community engagement projects. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about this.