Shareabouts

Shareabouts is an online mapping tool to gather crowdsourced public input in a social and engaging process. Using Shareabouts, people can drop a pin on a map to provide ideas, suggestions, and comments for planning and design issues. And as a mobile-friendly application, Shareabouts makes it easy to add input on the go.

A short guide to setting up Shareabouts

It's helpful, but not required, to know about the architecture of Shareabouts before starting.

<a name="heroku-button"></a>The easiest way to set up Shareabouts is to use the Heroku Button.

This will deploy a fully-functional Shareabouts map and datastore to your account on Heroku (an easy-to-manage hosting service). Hosting this way will cost $50-100 monthly. Here's the process.

Alternatively, you may want to use a different hosting service and set up the components of Shareabouts manually.

Documentation

All of our documentation is is our doc directory. Use it to learn more about:

• the architecture
• local setup
• testing the source
• interface configuration
• custom themes
• deploying with the Heroku button and in other ways
• upgrading from an older version
• getting your data once you have a map running

Questions? Problems? Ideas?

If you encounter a bug, create an issue on this GitHub repo.

Contributing

In the spirit of free software, everyone is encouraged to help improve this project.

Here are some ways you can contribute:

• by joining our developers discussion list: http://groups.google.com/group/shareabouts-dev
• by taking a look at our pipeline in the public tracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/398973
• by using alpha, beta, and prerelease versions
• by reporting bugs
• by suggesting new features
• by writing or editing documentation
• by writing specifications
• by writing code (no patch is too small: fix typos, add comments, clean up inconsistent whitespace)
• by refactoring code
• by resolving issues
• by reviewing patches

Credits

Shareabouts is a project of OpenPlans.