Culture mapping west of the Darling

Josh Edwards and I have spent part of the last 14 weeks building a database of people, places, activities and publications to assist us with mapping cultural assets - past and present - in the Central Darling Shire in Far West NSW.

All this week we are contacting (via telephone) a group of local people identified in our research to introduce them to the CAMRA project and ask them some questions about what they make and buy locally, where they take visitors and what inspires them about where they live. 

At the same time we are building a Google Map based on our database and planning for how we can invite public inputs the online map.

Questions at this early stage include:

How intuitive/easy to use is Google Maps for people from diverse educational backgrounds?

Which categories and mapping icons will enable local understanding and interaction with this online data?

Do we need specific iconography for the CAMRA Project to mark 'creative' and 'cool' places?

More soon...