#CV2050 Google map – Yours to annotate!

Yes, I know I said it'd be a cool thing if someone created a #CV2050 Google map that all of us who care about the Comox Valley could annotate. But it's so easy, and I'd rather be doing this than packing for my trip to Vancouver tomorrow... so here it is! A #CV2050 Google map. Ready for annotations!

To be fair, I googled "comox valley google maps" and found a great map already annotated for volunteer groups. A good place to start. Volunteer organizations are the heart of our communities. If we're going to have a resilient, thriving community in the Comox Valley in 2050, we'll probably owe some of that reality to the folks working and playing and enriching life through the organizations on this map. Thanks to whoever put together the original volunteer map!


But a thriving, sustainable community is more than volunteer organizations...
We also want to know things that only you can share. What's your favourite place, and why? What are the critical salmon streams? Where's a good place for a picnic? What's your favourite place to walk or cycle or spend time with friends?

We don't want to create a gold rush mentality about special private places, but we do want to give some texture and cultural depth (that means things like attaching family and community stories to places) to geographic locations. Sometimes it's just enough to put a heart as an annotation (♥ or <3 works).

Show us the love you feel for this place.

Tell us what you're concerned about.

Tell us a story about how you'd like to see some change (maybe you want to see a brownfield site – that's land use talk for: industrial lands – rehabilitated, or a vacant lot turned into a park or playground or maybe a community centre or even a commercial centre; go for it!).

Sustainability comes in many flavours. #CV2050 is about stimulating a rich, colourful banquet of voices in conversation about what the Comox Valley is going to look like in 2050, and how it's going to get there.

Want to play? ;-)


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