Walking maps project

Diversifying park stewardship, Parklands Albury Wodonga

Resources, ideas and tutorials to help you create and share walking maps

This site is an information hub for a Parklands Albury Wodonga project that supported volunteers to create and publish online walking maps around Albury and Wodonga. This page provides an overview of this project and the resources we used.

We welcome your input and ideas and would love to showcase your work and maps.

If you would like to volunteer with this project or find out more, see this article, which includes how to join the project.

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About WalkingMaps.com.au

Planning and creating your map

Options for support

Access the resources and information

Questions or want to get in touch?

About WalkingMaps.com.au

The walkingmaps.com.au website is a directory of walks in Australia. The website encourages walking and invites the public to contribute maps of their favourite walks. It's possible to search for a walk by location or search for particular walk types or features.

We love the ease of use of this site and think it offers a great opportunity to add (and promote!) more local walks. Wodonga council has contributed walks and uses the #WalkWodonga tag to promote walking locally. We're keen to help you to add your favorite walk (or theme) to share with others via this site.

Walkingmaps.com.au is an initiative of Victoria Walks, a health promotion charity.

You can watch their short introductory videos below.
One demonstrates searching the site to find walks and the other outlines the process of adding a walk to the site.

VIDEO: How to find walks on walkingmaps.com

Runs 2 minutes.

VIDEO: How to create digital walking maps

Overview of map creation directly on the walking maps site.

Planning and creating your map

There are many ways you could create your map.

You can work independently to gather the components for your map, create a contributor account and upload your content to walkingmaps.com.au.

To the right is an overview of the map components you will need when creating a walking map.

Diagram noting that walking map components include: 1. the route 2. summary and description and 3. features, points of interest, other information.

Through this project Parklands is suggesting creation of walking maps that encourage walkers to explore a place and/or theme in our area.

The suggested walk length is about 3 km to 5 km (around an hour in duration), ideally as a loop. Parklands is keen to promote walks on land they manage, but happy to support anyone in creating a walking map locally.

For more about routes, themes and the details you might include on your map, see the resources.

Options for support

for those who would like some help or tips for creating any of these components

The project resources and tutorials aim to build your skills and offer a reference of accessible tools for creating maps.

If you have content (map, text, photos) in non-digital formats, we can help you to get it online - either by showing you how to or doing it for you!

You can choose to access the elements that are of interest to you and ask our project officer, Karen, to help with any parts you are less keen or unsure about.

We also encourage you to consider using Google 'My Maps' for drafting and collaborating on maps. This tool has lots of potential uses and we can help you to use it in ways in addition to creating walking maps, including for the stewardship of our local outdoor spaces.

We can help you to use your mobile phone, digital camera or other technologies you would like to incorporate.

Through the collaboration between volunteers and Parklands Albury Wodonga, this project aims to add to the number of walks on the walkingmaps.com.au site for Albury Wodonga as well as create other opportunities to share and promote local outdoor spaces.