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Community Remarks is a citizen engagement application for urban planning to build a neighborhood map from public input.

Features:
Real-time Commenting
Drag and Drop Place marks
Address Verification
Comment Voting
Image Support
Email and Share
Public Availability
Google Mapping

Administration:
Edit and Delete Comments
Real-time Email Notifications
Customize Colors
Comment Display Order
Unlimited Map Categories
Content Management
Design Templates
Custom Place mark

How does it work?

Installation and Setup

We install Community Remarks on our server for your community. This can either be in a folder on our server such as communityremarks.com/MyCommunity/ or you can have a custom domain such as www.mygreatmap.com setup on our server.

You provide us with the latitude and longitude for the map center and an email address to the person who will monitor the comments. You can also provide us with custom markers you would like to use.

You will receive access to the web-based administration (content management system).
Here you can:

• Upload your logo
• Make basic aesthetic changes such as change the link colors
• Create topic categorizes and assign them to a color coded place marker
• View all comments, edit or delete them

Need more control over the design?
If you would like to modify the look and feel of the pages, we will provide you ftp access to the template files. Here you can modify the HTML and style sheet. If you are not savvy with HTML, we can change the layout for a small fee.

Going Live

Once we receive your map center coordinates, your application will be live within a couple of hours.
Adjustments to the layout could take several days, so please plan accordingly.

Once you are live, you will begin receiving emails from the comments posted to Community Remarks.

Opening It To The Public

Advertise the app on your project website, send out press releases, and contact affiliate organizations to encourage traffic. Don’t have a project website? Contact Us about special pricing for bundling a website with Community Remarks.

Garnering Results

All comments are collected in a database that we can export for other uses. This spreadsheet contains the latitude and longitude of the comment and the title, category, comment, and image reference for each entry. We also track the amount of traffic your application receives through Google Analytics and provide you with monthly reports.