OMNI-Mapping Project

Every organization engages in mapping, but most don’t create maps with the required focus to provide clarity, drive understanding, and inform action. Additionally, organizations waste significant resources creating maps from scratch that cannot be reused, preventing them from sharing data and opportunities across organizations. OMNI-Mapping solves this by building powerful processes that make maps more useful in their local contexts and reusable globally.

With OMNI-Mapping, organizations can assess their current information landscape, understand how to reach their goals, and act with confidence. A better approach to mapping creates a better approach to everything.

OMNI Project

Inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s vision of systemic design science, OMNI-Mapping is a new project advancing the field of mapping by enabling organizations to build on the work of others, and create clearer, more actionable maps.

Every organization engages in mapping, but most don’t create maps with the required focus to provide clarity, drive understanding, and inform action. Additionally, organizations waste significant resources creating maps from scratch that cannot be reused, preventing them from sharing data and opportunities across organizations. OMNI-Mapping solves this by building powerful processes that make maps more useful in their local contexts and reusable globally.

With OMNI-Mapping, organizations can assess their current information landscape, understand how to reach their goals, and act with confidence. A better approach to mapping creates a better approach to everything.

OMNI-Mapping will offer a robust infrastructure designed to elevate mapping capabilities for any organization through:

  • Interoperable global datasets that serve as key connection points, enabling seamless integration across maps.
  • A mapping framework and toolkit that guides organizations through effective, structured map-making processes.
  • Local mapping templates for quick, interoperable map creation across popular tools like Airtable, Kumu, and Catalist.

By adopting OMNI-Mapping, you’re not just creating better maps – you’re building an interconnected network of maps that empower us to coordinate in solving challenges across organizations, bioregions, and scales. 

If you’re actively mapping your ecosystem and interested in benefiting from or helping advance the OMNI-Mapping framework, visit omnimapping.org or contact either of the project’s co-leads: [email protected]  or [email protected]. 

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