Makin’ Maps

In depth, and occiasionally behind the scenes, posts on the method behind the madness, and on the makin’, o oor muckle maps aboot whit’s kent aboot wir nation.

Okay so we’re all about mapping as many different types of Scotland’s ‘national local’ building blocks as possible, but it’s also always been our intention to keep the maps we’ve already published updated – so far local council governance and politics, and one arm of national governance and politics in the UK Parliament (Westminster) – as external circustances dictate (and our time allows)…

However as you may have noticed, as far as external circumstances are concerned, we’re all living in Rather Strange Times…

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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