Maps are an Activist’s Best Friend

Maps help activists and campaigns engage, inform and mobilize supporters. New apps make it easy.

Maps are easy to understand and navigate. They’re intuitive and wonderful at storytelling. Free new apps make them a potent weapon for activists, organizers and campaigns.

Why are maps especially useful for activists? People are naturally interested in how an issue impacts them personally. Maps let you understand how a decision made in DC will impact you where you live. Readers can skim a map or did in deeper for details. Maps are easy to share with others and ideal for social media.

Maps are more than dots on a document. Add stories, images, videos and links to calls to action to your map.

DemLabs works pro bono with progressive groups to apply maps for worthy causes. Here are seventy DemLabs maps created over the last four years with the free StoryMaps app and other tools.

Maps with a purpose

Why maps are effective

Maps make sense of heaps of data. The information is presented through the interface of a map, which everyone is already familiar with.