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Information about the local policing neighbourhood team for most pins on the map is available through the source data sheet in columns:

• Force
• Force URL
• Neighbourhood
• Neighbourhood URL
• Neighbourhood email

Let's add these to the InfoWindow where they are available (see maptools.js:124).

Suggested UX:

• If Force or Neighbourhood are available, display a heading "Safety" - then:
• Force -> if available, display a label with: "Your local force:" and the value
• Force URL -> if available, wrap the force label with a link to the URL
• Neighbourhood -> if available, display a label with: "Your neighbourhood policing team: " and the value
• Neighbourhood URL -> if available, wrap the neighbourhood label with a link to the URL
• Neighbourhood email -> if available, add an extra entry with a mailto: link for the email, and the email address itself visible to the user

NB. The columns are mapped to properties on the community object. I've not yet checked what happens to spaces in column names.

We have access to a crowdsourced open data set of council community hubs. You can get this in CSV format at a reliable URL by publishing the google sheet. (I can do that if needed, or show you how it's done.)

Let's either add them as a new source on the map, or allow the map to select between sources through the querystring to display either the council hubs or volunteer communities.

This is slightly more complex than some of the other enhancements to the map, so please let me know if you're looking at it - I'd be glad to help plan it with you.

Add a control to the map that allows the user to type a location, part of a location, or the partial name of a community - geocode the address provided (or use the location of a named community) and then zoom/pan to that location on the map.

NB. Google offer autocomplete as a part of their APIs - and this might make a good addition to the control. There are plenty of examples of this used with their geocoding APIs to help users select a real location to geocode.

NNB. If it's not trivial to combine addresses and communities in the same autocomplete, just do one or the other, and we can compose a control that allows the user to select between the two options.

It would be helpful to be able to embed the map with some default parameters, and provide those parameters through the querystring.

• We could set the initial community source filters, eg. ?sources=facebook,whatsapp
• We could set the default centre and zoom for the map, eg. ?centre=nn.nnnn,nn.nnnn&zoom=n

We should fall back on the defaults we already have if the querystring parameters aren't provided.

NB. our current default centre is set to: lat: 55.3781, lng: -3.436 and default zoom is 6.

Let's add a few more filtering options to help users:

• By a single item only - or by some preset groups, eg. "halo communities", "all the others"
• Select all / select none options

However we choose to do it, the UX should be simple and easy to change.