Groundbreaking Geographic & Knowledge Mapping Products & Services

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!

Welcome To Knowledge Mappers

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 🙂

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The STHC Standard School Report condenses the most important stats headlines, charts and explanarory text from the Pupil Travel Distance & Mode Analysis module into 8 sides of A4 paper when printed.

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).

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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.

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Our Products & Services

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…

Knowledge Mappers News

Here’s the latest news from Mapping Out The Box The Knowledge Mappers Blog….

Map Store News

December 16, 2025

Map Category – Knowledge Calendars

Our range of calendar knowledge maps of generic, past, present and future years – with or without contextual knowledge elements (calendar grids, tags and knowledge resource links) embedded within, or attached to, the month & day branches, or additional sub-branches for 500+ annually recurring, internationally (and nationally) significant events complete with multiple links to public domain knowledge resources about them – provide an alternative, visually structured, ‘rich’ knowledge framework to help users keep track of, plan and manage, their own time and everything that is, was, may be, or may not be, happening in their lives…. Think of the usefulness...

Why Knowledge Mappers?

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…

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Years Of Experience

We have decades of collective professional experience of all aspects of the sourcing, creation, analysis & sharing of information to provide meaningful insight to stakeholders.

Insight, Not Technology

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...

Standard Office Tools

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!

Friendly & Approachable

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 🙂

Pragmatic Approach

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.

We Hate Waste

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!

MindManager Official Partners

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're On The Supplier List

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 Benefit Focus

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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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Nicolaus Copernicus

16th Century Mathematician & Astronomer

Tae ken that we ken whit we ken, and tae ken that we dinnae ken whit we dinnae ken, that's whit it's aw aboot, ye ken?

Rab C. Nesbitt

Contemporary Scottish Philosopher

And whilst we're aboot it, tae ken where the hell ye get haud of whit ye need to ken, when ye need to ken it, if ye dinnae ken it awready?

Rab C. Nesbitt

Contemporary Scottish Philosopher

As well as the definitive list of 'building blocks' of our world, our knowledge maps are a visually structured portal to all the official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources to be found about them in the public domain. All in a single shareable HTML file, viewable by anybody on any device with a browser. Not bad, ken?

Angus McDonald

Knowledge Mappers Founder & CEO and Scotland The Map Project Director

Do not only go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosopher and Transcendentalist

So the task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.

Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher and author of The World as Will and Representation

A map is the greatest of all epic poems. It's lines and colours show the realisation of great dreams.

Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor

'Father of Photo-Journalism' & 1st Full-Time Editor Of National Geographic Magazine

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action!

Herbert Spencer

English Philosopher, Psychologist, Biologist, Sociologist, Anthropologist and all round Polymath

Clients, Testimonials & Citations

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 🙂

This innovative sustainable development initiative [the STHC] aims to provide robust data that will allow schools, planners and individuals to develop more sustainable school travel options.... 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. [2009 CMO Report]

This work is a rarity - a product from a small consultancy that is motivated by a desire to achieve change and not just to make money. The output is excellent and does help to achieve change. Better still it comes at a very modest price that we cannot match in-house.

The School Travel Health Check is, in my opinion, an invaluable tool for all those interested in improving the health and wellbeing of children. It provides such crucial information that I don't see how we can do without it.

The School Travel Health Check process provides the essential foundations for development and delivery of Sustainable Modes Of Travel Strategies [SMOTS]. The STHC also frees officer time to do the important work of delivering change.

I am managing IT global projects with team members and stakeholders in different countries / continents. This calendar [knowledge map] application enable at a glance to see bank holidays / national / religious events with an explanation in addition. Those explanations are a great facilitator to develop team spirit during our virtual meeting as I can exchange with each attendant on her/his national event.

As a designer I can say without hesitation that Knowledge Mappers were important, unsung heroes, when I was designing The Great Tapestry of Scotland, Scottish Diaspora Tapestry and more recent projects. They provided a fantastic custom-made service in printing out large scale drawings and grids, without this key support it would have the made designing these tapestries more difficult. They also had an attention to detail that was very important. I cannot recommend them enough.

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UK Government Chief Medical Officer Annual Report

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.”

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Featured Knowledge Map

Annual Calendars - Base

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Our Annual Base Calendar knowledge maps are a versatile, ‘thumb & brain friendly’ desktop (or even ‘in the field’) fully interactive MindManager / HTML knowledge calendar map that provides a solid base from which to record and plan all aspects of your professional and / or personal life – such as events and projects (along with all the associated information and links etc.) – for the specific (Gregorian (‘Western’) calendar) year. They also provide the base visual knowledge framework for any other ‘annual calendar’ knowledge maps we create for that year (eg. our ‘Annual World Calendars‘).

There are 12 main branches for the months of the specifc year, each with 28-31 sub-branches for each day of the month, all arranged in a vertically branching (‘org-tree’) layout to form a calendar grid. Both ‘Month’ and ‘Day’ knowledge 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)….

Bespoke icon image unique to each specific time interval branch eg.;

Rich (ie. variably formatted) text uniquely labelling each specific time interval branch eg. ‘1 Jan 2025 Wed’;

Spreadsheet table ‘traditional’ monthly calendar grid embedded in specific month branches provides a quick reference for what dates fall on what days of the week;

Time-related index marker tags for all time intervals – years, quarters, months, weeks & days, in both single (YYYY) and business year (YYYY/YY) format – with most already attached to the appropriate branches to enable map filtering;

Internal hyperlinks between ‘parent’ month and ‘sub’ day branches enable quick navigation around the map;

External hyperlinks to official / definitive / ‘plain old useful’ public domain knowledge resources about the generic and specific month / day – and events thereon – such as ‘on this day’ type sites like Days of the Year, National Today, On This Day & Time and Date, and the Wikipedia chronicle portal page for generic or specific days – help you plan the future or remember the past; and

Additional Time Interval map sub-branch collections (and associated tags) for both longer intervals (weeks and quarters) that can be added to the map to further structure the months and days of the specified year; and shorter intervals (hours, minutes and seconds) to plan / chronicle individual days – and events or projects thereon – to greater detail as required (with even more compatible branches to build even more timelines available from our Time Templates Map).

See the MAP LEGEND branch for a full description of all the different types of branches – and all the knowledge elements embedded within them or attached to them – that make up this knowledge map.

All these elements combine to create intuitive to navigate, Annual Base Knowledge Calendar maps that provide a rich ‘base level’ of contextual knowledge & knowledge resource links about every day of every month of the specified year. They can be turned to multiple purposes, be it planning for tomorrow, or a day years in the future as we aim to always have maps for at least the next 10 years available in our store, to reconstructing timelines of days past as maps for previous years remain available to buy.

They are also a source of year-specific, knowledge-rich calendar content in any of your other maps for when you want ‘more than just the visuals’, or when you want to ‘build out on top of’ with your own content (some of it perhaps sourced from the linked knowledge resources) to create you own, bespoke knowledge calendar map for the year.

And even if you ‘just’ use it ‘as is’ as a straightforward calendar, as the days and months pass it will build into a ‘single source’, stand-alone, easily storable, retrieavable, shareable & searchable, visual archive of your year.

HTML MAP USER TIPS

The HTML5 (.html) map enables you to start working with the knowledge straight away as all you need is a device with a browser. Although it 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). There is much to explore….

Reference resource – The primary purpose of this HTML knowledge map is as a visually structured, ‘stand-alone’ reference calendar – a record of what day of the month falls on what day of the week for a specific year – with the addition of links to external, official / definitive / ‘plain old useful’ public domain knowledge resources about the generic or specific month or date thanks to MindManager’s ‘multiple hyperllinks on a single branch’ feature :-).
Shareable resource – If you are viewing this HTML map via a URL generated by MindManager’s powerful Publishing platform – not only can you share that URL of the map as a whole, but if you right click a branch you will get a ‘Link to this topic’ option. When the link generated is subsequently clicked, the map will open in the browser tab focused on that branch! (how cool is that? :-0
Interactive resource – Explore the interactive features eg. query it by performing a map filter using attached tags (if present eg. there are no tags in ‘Basic’ maps) to hide / show particular branches, and then screenshot / print the results.

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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

Note to work with the MindManager (.mmap) map, you will need a copy of MindManager software (a 30 day free trial version can be downloaded from the MindManager website).

For This Map
As well as ‘full featured viewing and interactive querying & filtering, MindManager software users 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…

Create your own ‘living calendar / diary to plan, and run, your life – Plan your year and days ahead and record whatever events and appointments (not to mention thoughts, hopes and dreams 🙂 you want to on a chronological basis, be it for work, family, hobbies, personal journal or blog, whatever. For example….
– use the notes panel attached to the month / day branches to give you a ‘heads up’ with forward planning, especially when you know something is likely to happen around then but don’t yet know exactly when it is going to happen eg. “professional association conference in middle of October”.
– mark up Public Holidays by tagging day branches with the ‘Public Holiday’ tag from the ‘TIME – Day Type’ group (the ‘Day – Holiday (Public)’ SMART rule will then change the Day branch fill colour to orange).
– don’t stop at just recording that a meeting or conference is happening by adding a sub-branch to the appropriate day branch, copy and paste the agenda as a note / sub-branches and run the meeting using the map, adding notes and actions as you go for ‘instant minutes’, that can be easily shared.
Note – Use the Additional Time Interval sub-branches (and associated tags) to build your calendar / diary….
– longer interval branches (weeks and quarters) can be added to the map to further structure the months and days of the year;
– shorter interval branches (hours, minutes and seconds) can be added to plan individual days – and events or projects thereon – to greater detail as required;
– even more time interval branches to build even more timelines are available from our ‘Time Related Templates Map‘ .
Digital Archive – As the days and months pass, your calendar map file gradually becomes your permanent digital record of what you – and maybe the rest of your team (including that guy that left 6 months ago!) – did when, along with all the supporting details that were recorded at the time, preserved to be re-discovered ‘in context’ if required at some unknown time in the future (maybe long after event websites may have disappeared to the Great Server In The Sky….). This readily accessible archive ls also a great time-saver when re-using map branches for regularly scheduled events. Imagine, a single file source of everything that happened over the course of a year, for any year (as well as calendar maps for the next 10 years, we also aim to always have maps for the last 10 years available in our mapstore so you can look back and revisit, as well as look forward and anticipate).
A source of time-related content for use in other maps – Use the components of the map in whole or in part – be it the whole branches or the unique bespoke images, embedded spreadsheet calendar grids, or index marker tags embedded within or attached to them – to add a year / quarter /month / week / day specific temporal dimension to other MindManager maps (indeed why not go the full hog and add them to your Map Parts archive?). For example….
– add a mini calendar of specific days to a project map to help plan out what’s happening.
– copy and paste a ‘TIME -’ tag group to an existing map, assign to branches as appropriate, and interactively filter using your new found ‘temporal-intelligence’ 😉
Personalise – Make the calendar map your own….
– Change the Weekend days by changing the ‘Day- Weekends’ SMART rule that controls their visual formatting (‘Weekend Days’ are set to be topics tagged as ‘Sat’ and ‘Sun’ by default, change the triggers to be any days of the week you want).
– Create your own annual calendar map for your ‘business year’ by ‘mixing & matching’ months from the annual calendar maps for sequential years as required.

General User Tips
These tips apply when working with any of our knowledge map….

Work on a copy – We would always recommend users work on a duplicate copy of this map for each project and keep the original download file in a safe place for future working.
Strip out what you don’t need – With the original safe, you can now strip out the map content you don’t need for your project – the floating ‘meta’ and Map Legend branches, the central topic text – so the project map is as small and efficient as possible from the outset (though make sure there isn’t a more stripped back version of the map already available on the map store).
Experiment – Don’t be afraid to play about with all the settings that control the visual appearance…
– Choose which of the embedded / attached elements are displayed on all of the map branches by selecting them at ‘View > Detail > Show/Hide’. Note that in our maps Tags are turned off by default.
– Switch between the Modern and Legacy Topic Info display settings at ‘View > Detail > Topic Info > Topic Info Display Settings’, where individual elements that are shown on the card can also be toggled on or off. Note we create our maps in the Legacy style by preferfence, but Topic info cards can always be turned on / off for individual branches, even in the Legacy style, using ‘Ctrl + Alt + I’.
– Hide / Show Embedded Topic Properties embedded on individual branches by clicking on the green arrow on the right of each each branch. (Note if you select a number of branches and do the action on one of them, it does it for all of them).
Change colours, sizes and shapes – The size, shape, and colour of each map branch and branch text is controlled initially by a ‘Topic Style’ and then perhaps conditionally modified by a ‘Smart Rule’ based on one or more attached tags. Don’t be afraid to play about with them, perhaps even creating your own ‘house style’.
Go big – MindManager has many unique functions available – such as topic properties (single data cells), formulas and smart rules – why not incorporate some of them as you build on your new map?

Explore the other product tabs for…

comprehensive descriptions of the General Features, Knowledge Seed Branches and Knowledge Link Collections that make up this knowledge map.
the full range of 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.

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Sample Maps

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.

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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.