Audience: Community groups, advocates, students supporting public meetings
Length: 3 lessons
Goal: Prepare a simple, readable, community-centered map for discussion, advocacy, or outreach

Lessons in this pathway:

1. Participatory and Community Mapping (Foundations)
2. Reading Maps Closely (Literacy)
3. Choosing the Right Mapping Tool (Tools)

This pathway begins with the idea that community knowledge should shape what gets mapped and how. It then moves into visual literacy, helping users think about readability, emphasis, and what a public-facing map is asking people to notice. It ends with tool choice, encouraging users to select a platform that matches the needs of a meeting or outreach setting rather than defaulting to the most technical option.

This pathway is especially useful for groups that need a map that is clear, accessible, and quick to produce. It could pair well with beginner-friendly collaborative and browser-based tools from the toolkit, such as Google My Maps, Felt, or ArcGIS Online.