An online mapping tool, created as part of Map for Mobile, Mobile, Alabama’s first comprehensive plan in over 20 years, has allowed those who could not attend a recent workshop to have their say regarding Mobile’s future. Approximately 200 people identified nearly 300 strong and weak places in Mobile and provided descriptions of those places through the web-based mapping activity.
The end result of the combined workshop and online input is a composite map with over 2,600 individual strong and weak places in Mobile identified. Clusters of dots indicate the strongest and weakest areas citywide, while comments associated with each data point (attributed by the individual or table group) indicate characteristics that make those places strong or weak. This information has been used to draft principles for the comprehensive plan to guide how and where Mobile should develop in the future.
