When life gives you a place to make maps, you make maps
As the first European settlers arrived, the bounty of Annapolis County made itself clear. Ample forests for building and firewood, the waters teeming with fish, and abundant land for crops---once the tidal saltwater marshes had been dyked and drained.
Nearly four hundred years later, mostly rural Annapolis County is where livings are still made on land and sea, where scallop draggers and lobster boats, tree harvesters and pulp trucks, dairy farms and apple orchards are as everyday as the high, high tides of the Bay of Fundy.
Rural Annapolis County is also the home of the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS), part of Nova Scotia's Community College system, and is Canada's largest geomatics-focused learning environment.
The original Annapolis Community Mapping Project collaborated with the administration, students, and instructors at the Centre for Geographic Sciences, creating an intergenerational learning experience. County residents supplied the research while learning the ins and outs of creating digital maps from those either teaching or learning how to make digital maps at COGS.
The idea of Mapannapolis.ca was born from that early meeting of the mapping-minded, in 2012.