CrowdSpot

How it works

Build your project. Engage with your community. Transform data into insights. Make better decisions.

Projects can be either short-term or ongoing community engagement projects.

Build

Build your project with the right map design, survey configuration and branding to match your community and the information you want to collect.

Engage

The visual and social user experience helps to generate greater participation rates over the life of your project.

Insights

Transform your community-generated dataset into real insight. Visualise data for analysis and effective communication.

Build

Build your project with the right map design, survey configuration and branding to match your community and the information you want to collect.

Engage

The visual and social user experience helps to generate greater participation rates over the life of your project.

Insights

Transform your community-generated dataset into real insight. Visualise data for analysis and effective communication.

Solutions for many industries

Field Reporting

Community Engagement

International Development

Environmental Management

Urban Planning

Marketing & Media

CrowdSpot provided an excellent base to develop our Strategy. We generated strong interest, high participation rates and quality detailed feedback. Great value for money.

Stuart Outhred, Senior Transport Planner, City of Perth

Love working with CrowdSpot! They are professional, patient and delivered everything on time and under tight deadlines. I would recommend them time and time again.

Lisa Gulyas, Be a Trail Blazer Project, City of Greater Bendigo

This is the first time council has used CrowdSpot and we found it really helpful. It’s been a great tool, enabling so many more responses.

Leanne Hodyl, City Road Master Plan, City of Melbourne

Featured Projects

BikeSpot

Free To Be

I-280 Corridor Study

City of Perth Integrated Transport Strategy

City of Melbourne 2016-2020 Bicycle Plan

BikeSpot

In collaboration with The Squeaky Wheel and enabled by a TAC Community Road Safety Grant, the BikeSpot project was built to explore differences in the perceived risk and real risk of riding a bicycle in Melbourne. Users were asked to identify how safe and unsafe they feel at location across Melbourne. The data collected is now being compared to VicRoads CrashStats. View the blog post.

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Spots

2,424

Comments

2,230

Supports

3,684

Free To Be

Towards the end of 2016 we worked closely with Plan International Australia on the Free To Be project. This important project focuses on making Melbourne safer for young women by first providing the opportunity for people to share their safety related experiences and emotions around Melbourne. The results are currently being shared with key decision makers. Please contact us for more information or if you would like to conduct a similar activity in your area.

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Spots

1,318

Comments

379

Supports

245

I-280 Corridor Study

The Santa Clara VTA recently used CrowdSpot this year for the i-280 Highway Corridors Study. The popular highway corridor, which runs through the heart of Silicon Valley, attracted a huge amount of interest with over 2,500 submissions. The data is now being analysed to develop a new strategic plan for the area.

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Spots

819

Comments

1,018

Supports

768

City of Perth Integrated Transport Strategy

As part of the development of the City of Perth’s Integrated Transport Strategy this custom CrowdSpot map was created to enable citizens to share their ideas and concerns across all modes of transport. The results of this project will help inform where improvements will be made.

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Spots

437

Comments

392

Supports

2,497

City of Melbourne 2016-2020 Bicycle Plan

The City of Melbourne used CrowdSpot for the development of the Draft Bicycle Plan 2016-2020 to identify the top infrastructure priorities requiring improvement. Overall, there were over 5,000 combined submissions made on the map. View the dataset.

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Spots

1,056

Comments

1,461

Supports

4,714

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We're based in Melbourne and can setup projects for any location.

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CrowdSpot Features

CrowdSpot is an interactive, visual map-based tool carefully designed to generate greater levels participation, education and engagement.

This unique combination of web map technology, community engagement and good design principles helps to deliver real insights for analysis communication and better decision making.

Design and Build

Custom map and interface design

Design the map base layer and overlays to enhance visual communication. Apply your own style project brand to the project.

Multiple question types

There are five question types available: Open text field, Paragraph text field, Image or file upload, Dropdown (single response), Multi-checkbox (multi response)

Survey logic functionality

This feature helps to help shorten the length of the user’s survey path by only showing the relevant questions based on their response.

Sticky fields

Avoid having to enter in the same information more than once (if adding more than one spot) by making specific survey questions ‘sticky’ (pre-loaded based on previous response).

Community Engagement

Multiple ways to engage

In addition to adding their own Spots, participants can also comment or vote on other Spots and share Spot via Facebook or Twitter.

Responsive design

The responsive web platform allows the functionality across all browsers and all devices. Easily embed your project map in your organisation website or use iPads during face-to-face workshops.

List and sort all Spots

Spots can also be viewed as a List. This also allows spots to be sorted by most recent, most ‘supports’ and most comments. There is also a keyword search, which is useful when looking for something specific.

Live activity feed

Real-time live activity so all the latest submissions are at your fingertips.

Data Insights

Spatial visualisations

Spatial visualisations are a great way to analyse data and communicate results back to the community.

Admin dashboard

View web analytics and participation results in real-time.

Summary reports

Our visual reports include a breakdown of all key quantitative data including the survey results and Google Analytics. We also include spatial visualisations within the report.

Interactive archive maps

Interactive archive maps are a great way to continuously view and visualise data.

Why CrowdSpot?

Our Mission is to help co-create quality places in an inclusive, social and engaging process

We strive to reduce barriers to citizen engagement so more people can participate in the planning process. This helps to build trust, collect quality information and make better decisions that reflect the priorities and views of the community.

CrowdSpot was founded by urban planners and tech professionals interested in using technology to improve public participation and make better places.

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Solutions for many industries

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