Mapumental

{{Short description|Web-based interactive isochrone map}}

{{Infobox website

| name = Mapumental

| logo =

| screenshot = Mapumental_screenshot.png

| caption = Interactive isochrone map on Mapumental.com

| creator = Chris Lightfoot, Francis Irving, Matthew Somerville, Duncan Parkes, Steve Day, Dave Arter

| owner = mySociety

| launch_date = 2006

| programming_language= Perl

| website = {{URL|https://mapumental.com}}

}}

Mapumental was a web-based application for displaying journeys in terms of how long they take,{{cite web|title=These tools let you map journey times in the world's major cities|date=12 November 2015 |url=http://www.citymetric.com/transport/these-tools-let-you-map-journey-times-worlds-major-cities-1579|accessdate=6 August 2016}} rather than by distance, a technique also known as isochrone or geospatial mapping.{{cite web|title=Mapumental: Travel time maps|url=https://mapumental.com/services/travel-time|accessdate=6 August 2016}}{{cite book|title=New Directions in Political Science - Responding to the Challenges of an Interdependent World|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9780230228481|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uX2trB7Nd48C&pg=PT63|accessdate=6 August 2016|date=2016-10-16}} It was developed by British organisation mySociety but was withdrawn in 2020.{{cite web |title=Mapumental |access-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428133022/https://mapumental.com/ |archive-date=28 April 2020|url=https://mapumental.com/}}

Users input one or more postcodes and Mapumental displays a map overlaid with coloured bands, each of which represent a set increment of time. Initial work on the project was done by Chris Lightfoot, using open data from Railplanner, Transport Direct and the Transport for London Journey Planner.{{cite web|url=https://www.mysociety.org/2006/03/04/travel-time-maps-methods/|title=Travel time maps: methods / mySociety|date=4 March 2006 |publisher=}}

It was built with support from Channel 4iP,{{cite web|url=https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/advaith/pages/teaching/abdn.only/CS5915/information/CS5577-%20Logan%20A%20J.pdf|title=Exploiting U.K. Government Linked Data|date=23 April 2010|accessdate=19 August 2018|publisher=University of Aberdeen|last=Logan|first=Alasdair|page=21}} the former public service arm of British TV broadcaster Channel 4.{{cite conference|citeseerx=10.1.1.663.9440|title=Harnessing collaborative innovation for the evolution of public service media|last=Jackson|first=Lizzie|date=23 August 2010|conference=RIPE Conference}} The software the Mapumental runs on is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License.{{cite web|title=Travel time maps: methods|url=https://www.mysociety.org/2006/03/04/travel-time-maps-methods/|quote=Our software is available under the terms of the GNU Affero GPL.|accessdate=19 August 2018|last=Lightfoot|first=Chris|date=4 March 2006 }}

Mapumental can be combined with other data sets, for example, property prices{{cite web|url=http://property.mapumental.com/|title=Mapumental|publisher=}} and ‘scenicness’ data (see ScenicorNot, below).{{cite news | url=http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/live-where-its-most-scenic-with-mapumental.html | title=Live Where It's Most Scenic With Mapumental | work=psfk | date=June 1, 2009 | accessdate=March 22, 2012 | author=Fawkes, Piers}}{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/property/househunting-goes-hitech-1826773.html | title=House-hunting goes hi-tech | work=The Independent | date=November 25, 2009 | accessdate=March 22, 2012}}{{cite news | url=http://www.eyemagazine.com/opinion.php?id=185 | title=Understand, visualise, survive | work=Eye | date=Winter 2010 | accessdate=March 22, 2012 | author=Gadney, Max | issue=78}}{{cite news | url=http://www.recruiter.co.uk/mysociety-launches-mapumental/1010942.article | title=MySociety launches Mapumental | work=Recruiter | date=Sep 14, 2011 | accessdate=March 22, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mysociety.org/2009/06/01/say-hello-to-mapumental/|title=Say hello to Mapumental|date=June 2009 |publisher=My Society}} It is now provided as a commercial service by mySociety to clients such as the Fire Protection Association.{{cite web|url=https://www.mysociety.org/2013/04/22/fire-fire-mapumental-and-fire-engine-journey-times/|title=Fire, fire! Mapumental and fire engine journey times / mySociety|date=22 April 2013 |publisher=}}