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Shareabouts is a mapping application for crowdsourced info gathering.
https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts

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Shareabouts is a mapping application for crowdsourced info gathering.

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Shareabouts is an online mapping tool to gather crowdsourced public input in a social and engaging process. Using Shareabouts, people can drop a pin on a map to provide ideas, suggestions, and comments for planning and design issues. And as a mobile-friendly application, Shareabouts makes it easy to add input on the go.



A short guide to setting up Shareabouts

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It's helpful, but not required, to know about the [architecture of Shareabouts](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/ARCHITECTURE.md) before starting.



The easiest way to set up Shareabouts is to use the Heroku Button.



[![Deploy](https://www.herokucdn.com/deploy/button.png)](https://heroku.com/deploy)



This will deploy a fully-functional Shareabouts map and datastore to your account on Heroku (an easy-to-manage hosting service). Hosting this way will cost $50-100 monthly. [Here's the process](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/HEROKU_BUTTON.md).



Alternatively, you may want to use a [different hosting service](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/DEPLOY.md) and set up the components of Shareabouts manually.



Documentation

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All of our documentation is is our `doc` directory. Use it to learn more about:

* [the architecture](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/ARCHITECTURE.md)

* [local setup](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/README.md)

* [testing the source](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/TESTING.md)

* [interface configuration](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/CONFIG.md)

* [custom themes](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/CUSTOM_THEME.md)

* [deploying with the Heroku button](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/HEROKU_BUTTON.md) and [in other ways](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/DEPLOY.md)

* [upgrading from an older version](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/UPGRADE.md)

* [getting your data once you have a map running](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/blob/master/doc/GETTING_YOUR_DATA.md)



Questions? Problems? Ideas? 

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If you encounter a bug, [create an issue](https://github.com/openplans/shareabouts/issues) on this GitHub repo.



Contributing

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In the spirit of [free software](http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html), **everyone** is encouraged to help improve this project.



Here are some ways *you* can contribute:



* by joining our developers discussion list: http://groups.google.com/group/shareabouts-dev

* by taking a look at our pipeline in the public tracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/398973

* by using alpha, beta, and prerelease versions

* by reporting bugs

* by suggesting new features

* by writing or editing documentation

* by writing specifications

* by writing code (**no patch is too small**: fix typos, add comments, clean up inconsistent whitespace)

* by refactoring code

* by resolving issues

* by reviewing patches



Credits

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Shareabouts is a project of [OpenPlans](http://openplans.org).