Our maps visually connect individuals, teams, organisations & communities with what they need to know… so that they can to do what they need to do… quicker, easier and with a lot less stress!
Knowledge Mappers is a unique, digital mapping consultancy & publishing company. Our ground-breaking knowledge products & services ‘visually connect’ people with what they need to know so that individuals, teams, organisations & communities can do what they need to do to move forward and make their contribution to the world – quicker, easier and with a lot less stress 🙂
Our first passion is the mapping, analysis and sharing of geographic information (GI) – ie. the knowledge about the ‘places & spaces’ that make up our physical world, and our interactions with them – and we have over 50 years of collective experience covering all aspects…
From it’s initial sourcing / capture, spatial analysis using GIS (from every day mapping tools like Google Maps and Google Earth, to full blown analysis software like ESRI, MapInfo and QGIS), and publishing & sharing with expert & non-expert stakeholders alike as both online map-enabled data portals and large format paper maps.
Indeed our School Travel Health Check (STHC) spatial analysis service – which was born out of an initial GI consultancy project to provide high quality, spatial intelligence data to one local authority, it’s school communities and other stakeholders interested in how children travel to their school, from where, and how far they travel to get there – has been combining all of our GI skills in a nationally available, ‘one-stop shop’ service since 2005.
We are also passionate about the development of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) at all levels to ensure that this key knowledge about their world is accessible to all who need it – be they members of the GI Professional Community or communities defined geographically – and they have the capacity to use it to support them in whatever it is they need to do, once they have it.
Note we are a registered data processor with the UK Information Commissioner (ICO).
Our other passion is knowledge mapping, which we do by combining that same unique range of data / information / knowledge hunting & cartographic expertise with Corel (formerly ‘Mindjet’) MindManager – the world’s best information (‘mind’) mapping software – to create multi-function knowledge maps (‘hierarchical tree diagrams’) that visually capture not only the’building blocks’ that make up just about any ‘human knowledge space’ and the ‘spatial’ inter-relationships between them, but also the (potentially 1000’s of) official / definitive / ‘plain old useful’ knowledge resources available about them in the public domain.
And thanks to MindManger’s unique HTML export capability, we can make our ground-breaking knowledge maps available to download in 2 formats from our map store….
Original MindManager (.mmap) format – for full featured viewing, interactive querying, editing, expanding, adapting and re-purposing in whole or in part by MindManager software users.
HTML5 (.html) format – all the content – and most of the interactivity – of the original MindManager map (but ‘view only’), viewable on any any modern browser, on any device, without the need for any plugins, or indeed an internet connection to view it once it has been downloaded (so it can be viewed offline, in remote locations with no signal).
All is made clear in our Knowledge Map Guide. Currently we are concentrating on mapping real world geographic space with ‘atlas knowledge maps of countries of the world’ (and our Scotland the Map ‘proof of concept project’ for sub-national spaces), and past, present & future time space with ‘calendar knowledge maps’, but we welcome feedback & suggestions for subjects for future maps, or other definitive / official / plain old useful 🙂 knowledge resources to link to (as long as they’re freely accessible in the public domain). We are also keen to collaborate with like minded organisations, communities & projects for the benefit of the common good.
We also offer a bespoke knowledge mapping service for clients – especially for communities – as well as consultancy & training to help them do it for themselves. Along with our fellow partners in the MindManager International Value Added Partner (MIVAP) Network we also offer a complete MindManager consultancy service to help others to get the most value from this most amazing digital tool.
Browse our ground-breaking geographic and knowledge mapping products & services below. In our experience there are very few areas of human endeavor that don’t benefit from the increased understanding, buy-in and alignment amongst stakeholders that working visually brings. You are experts in what you do. Get in touch and let us help you do it better with what we do…
From the UK Chief Medical Officer to Local Council Officers, Project Managers and Headmasters, our mapping products and services have connected many individuals, teams, organisations & communities with the knowledge they need, to do what they need to do… quicker, easier, and with a lot less stress 🙂
Our School Travel Health Check (STHC) Spatial Analysis Service is cited as the example of best practice for public health in the South West Region in the 2009 Annual Report of the UK Government Chief Medical Officer (see “Increasing active travel by schoolchildren” – p73).
“This innovative sustainable development initiative aims to provide robust data that will allow schools, planners and individuals to develop more sustainable school travel options.”
“Active travel to school is an important source of physical activity for young people. It could be increased further. These statistics provide a useful baseline against which to measure progress, and should be used in conjunction with a qualitative assessment of local authority and school travel policies.”
Here are some of the reasons why our unique range of knowledge / information / data mapping skills & expertise can help you do what you need to do… quicker, easier and with a lot less stress…
We have decades of collective professional experience of all aspects of the sourcing, creation, analysis & sharing of information to provide meaningful insight to stakeholders.
Though technology is vitally important, it is just a tool, a means to an end. We never lose sight of the reason why we are using it, which is to provide you with meaningful insight into your world...
We use the same standard technology tools as you - MS Office, MapInfo, QGIS, Google Maps, MindManager, Bootstrap, browsers... It's what we do with them that makes the difference!
We like to work in a collaborative way with our clients and partners so that we achieve more together. You are experts at what you do. We would like to help you do it better with what we do 🙂
We've been employees in the public sector and large corporations ourselves, so we know what it's like from both sides. That's why we offer things like 'flexible invoicing' to fit in with your budgetary cycle.
The wasting of your time hunting for the information you need. The waste of effort in creating knowledge resources that aren't as well used as they could be by those who would benefit from them most. We're doing our best to sort that!
As one of MindManager's International Value Added partners we feed in to the Beta development program and can draw from a huge pool of knowledge to help you get the most from the world's best information mapping software.
We are on several government supplier lists, including the Scottish & UK governments, as well as local authorities. Let us know if there's anything we can do to make procurement of our products & services any easier for you.
Community is what binds us together as a species. It is through community that probelms are identified, solutions arrived at & delivered, and success celebrated & shared. We especially enjoy working with communities (geographic or virtual) to help them move forward with what they want to do.
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Countries of the World – International Trade, Aid & Sustainable Development Knowledge Atlas (General Edition) is a visually structured, curated by a human, comprehensive index of – and ‘discover within the big picture context, minimal click’ portal to – over 28,500 official / definitive / plain old useful, public domain knowledge resources about the international trade, humanitarian aid & sustainable development situation in each of the 249 ISO3166-1 defined ‘Countries & Territories of the World’, and the UN Geoscheme (M49 standard) defined Macro Geographic Regions and Sub / Intermediary Regions within which they sit.
It builds on the knowledge framework provided by our 
ISO3166-1 Countries Of The World – Base Atlas through the addition of collections of knowledge resource links sub-branches ‘built out on top of’ the country seed branch, each with a single hyperlink to official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources about some aspect of the International Trade, Humanitarian Aid or Sustainable Development situation in it found in the public domian….
International Trade, Aid & Sustainable Development Knowledge Resource Links Collection
There are ~87 resources in this collection for each ISO3166-1 Country of the World, including….
United Nations System Bodies resources supporting trade & sustainable development such as the UN Regional Economic & Social Commissions, the UN Development Program (UNDP), the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Indicators, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), UN Trade & Development (UNCTAD) (General & Maritime Trade Profiles), various World Bank profiles & portals (for projects, general open data & climate change), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organisation (including Regional Trade Agreements) the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World Health Organisation (WHO) (including the Global Health Observatory profile), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO); as well as humanitarian aid such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) , the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) (and some of the information portals it operates such as the UN Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS), Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), Reliefweb & ReliefWeb Response) , the World Food Program (WFP) (including Food Security Analysis & LIVE World Hunger Map), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
European Union (EU) System Resources supporting trade & sustainable development such as the EU member state’s ‘official country profile or the EU Delegation to the country’s mini website if not a member, the EU-Country Trade Relationship profile and the local supporting resources and partnership opportunities provided by the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions to help them innovate and grow on an international scale.
Wikimedia Projects resources such as the country’s Wikipedia Outline, the Main Article and sub-categories & main articles on it’s Economy, Education and Health.
As well as the CIA World Fact Book & Country Facsheets, the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) World Chambers Federation (WCF) Network; tempered by the reports on Business Risk & Corruption and human rights from Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch, and environmental degradation & climate change from near real time tracking platforms like the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), Climate Trace Emmission Tracker and the World Research Institute (WRI)’s Global Forest Watch.
It’s All About That Base
As in all our ‘atlas’ knowledge maps about the countries of the world, the country seed branches that these sub-branch collections of knowledge links are ‘built out on top of’ (ie. are sub-branches off of) are part of the base visual knowledge framework provided by our Countries of the World – Base Knowledge Atlas, which is comprised of knowledge seed branches for each country – as officially defined by ISO-3166-1: Codes For The Representation Of Names Of Countries – arranged as sub-branches within in an ‘org-tree’ base framework of seed branches for every UN defined Macro Geographical (Continental) Region And Sub-Region that form the ‘bigger picture’ visual & logical framework within which they sit.
Both ‘Region’ and ‘Country’ seed branches have a rich range of contextual knowledge elements visibly embedded within them or attached to them (most of which are unique to MindManager)…
Outline shape shows the nature of the country’s borders with it’s equivalent neighbours (‘island’, ‘land-locked’ etc.).
Images of thumbnail location maps & country flags.
Title text is the country’s official ‘Short’ and ‘Full’ names and 2 and 3 letter and numeric codes (as listed on the country’s entry of the official ISO3166-1 Online Browsing Platform) in variably formatted (‘rich’) text.
Single data fields of contextual geostatistical data such as geographic area & population (taken from official United Nations Data and CIA World Factbook sources).
Index marker tags add contextual knowledge, enable ‘geo intelligent’ map filtering as well as the invokation of ‘smart rules’ to conditionally format some elements (eg. the outline shape of the branch).
Internal hyperlinks enable quick navigation ‘jumps’ between related map branches, such as between the country seed sub-branches and their parent region as well as with the ‘Quick Links’ branch.
External hyperlinks to almost 30 of the most important official / definitive / plain old useful public domain general and geographic knowledge resources about the countries and macro-geographic regions of the world – such as the UNdata, CIA World Fact Book, Factsheets & Foreign Governments (‘World Leaders’) Directory and many Wikipedia Categories, Main Articles, Portals, Outlines & Lists.
See the MAP LEGEND branch in the map for a full description of all the different types of branches, and all the knowledge elements embedded within them or attached to them.
This Countries of the World – International Trade, Aid and Sustainable Development Knowledge Atlas (General Edition) map then is an invaluable ‘thumb & brain friendly’ desktop (or even ‘in the field’) research tool that will enable you to spend less of your valuable time getting lost down internet search rabbit holes so you can spend more of it actually assimilating & applying the world’s best knowledgebases about the international trade and / or humanitarian aid and / or sustainable development situation in any of the countries and regions of this big old beautiful world of ours for the benefit of your own personal projects and / or those of the teams, organisations & communities of which you are part.
HTML Map User Tips
Alhough the HTML5 (.html) map is read only, it still has all the content – and most of the interactivity – of the original MindManager map (from which it has been exported), and it can be viewed by anybody, in any modern web browser software, on any digital device, without the need for any software plugins, as stand-alone files or embedded in web pages, on(or off)-line (once downloaded).
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Next level – Once you are proficient with using this read-only HTML knowledge map and feel you want to take things to the next level by editing or amending it any way (or even start making your own maps!), you can start by working with the original MindManager (.mmap) map file that was also part of the product download, in conjunction with the free 30 day trial version of MindManager at any time.
MindManager Map User Tips
As well as ‘full featured viewing and interactive querying & filtering, you are free to edit, add to, adapt and/or re-purpose this map in whole or in part, and/or use it as a source of content that can be added to your own existing maps. For example…
Note we advise you to save this map under a different name when you start a new project, that way you will not accidentally alter this original version.
Explore the other product tabs for…
General Features, 
Knowledge Seed Branches and 
Knowledge Link Collections that make up this knowledge atlas map.
Buying Options (this map may also be available as part of one or more product bundles of related maps).
Don’t forget that you can also 
View / 
Download a sample map in MindManager (.mmap) or HTML5 (.html) format.
Price: £62.47 (exc. GB VAT)
See the full range of Buying Options (this map may also be available as part of one or more product bundles).
To view the ‘cut down’ sample map in a new tab in your browser courtesy of MindManager’s unique Publishing feature, click the button below (it will take 30 seconds to a minute to load). If viewing on a phone you will need to scroll to the right to view the on-screen user instructions.
To download the sample map as both original MindManager (.mmap) and HTML5 (.html) files for more thorough offline investigation, complete the form below and the download links will be sent to the email address you supply.
Watch the brief explainer videos of what’s what below before viewing / downloading a sample of this map to play with….
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