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The geographies of Scotland’s 32 Local Council Areas dominate public life – whether that be through the planning, funding & delivery of public services to local communities, or local democratic oversight & accountability – so knowledge mapping them was one of the first priorites of the ScotlandtheMap project. This map of general & geographic knowledge resources about Scottish Local Council Areas is our first attempt. No doubt it will be udated on a regular basis as more knowledge resources are incorporated.

Governance is fundamental to any society so this is the first category of ‘Scottish building blocks’ we are knowledge mapping. It should be a good proving ground for the whole ScotlandTheMap project as there’s certainly no shortage of online public domain knowledge resources about all the elected representatives, accountable individuals, parliaments, councils, authorities, institutions, agencies & partnerships (and their associated administrative & electoral geographies) involved in governing Scotland.

In this series of blog posts, we’ll summarise what this ‘knowledge mapping’ thing is, why we got into it, and how we’re applying it to mapping the ‘national local’ building blocks of Scotland. In this first post we’ll look at the origins of ‘mindmapping software’ – of which MindManager (our oftware of choice) has always been the market leader but also so much more. However in order to do that, we must first look at the manual technique of ‘mind mapping‘, popularised in the 1970’s by British popular psychology author and television personality Tony Buzan.

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