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This page features various Murmurations demos, showing how distributed interoperable data which follows the Murmurations protocol can be used.

If you develop a demo using Murmurations please let us know and we will add it here.

Murmurations Tools

You can access the Murmurations Tools via https://murmurmaps.murmurations.network/ to search the Murmurations Index and create and update profiles.

Between 2023 and 2026 we ran two sets of online tools to support collaborative mapping. The two versions of Tools (one for the Test index, one for the Production index) provided access to:

  • The Index explorer – for searching all the nodes registered with the Murmurations index
  • Murmurations Profile Generator – for creating (and optionally hosting) interoperable json profiles
  • The Batch importer – for importing large datasets into Murmurations
  • The Index Updater – for adding, updating and removing self-hosted profiles to/from the index
  • Demonstration maps – featuring all the nodes in the index for a particular schema

The demo maps featured clustering to help render the ~7,000 profiles that are registered with the Organisations schema, however due to the fact that the map pulls in data from wherever the profiles are hosted it still took a while to load. Rendering more than about 100 profiles on a map, especially when viewing the map on a mobile phone, is never going to deliver a very good user experience. For this reason we recommend producing sector, topic or location specific maps which show only the data the user needs – but this is part of the beauty of Murmurations: multiple maps can be created from the same distributed data set, so it is possible to make highly specific maps with minimal effort.

Screenshots of the Murmurations demo map

The world
Europe
UK
London
Profile popup
Profile popup - Outlandish

Screenshots of the old Murmurations Tools

Custom embedded maps

You can use MurmurMaps to create quick and easy custom maps, which you can embed on any other website inside an iframe.

See the example below, which shows Community Exchange groups around the world which trade via barter, time and mutual credit, using the following code embedded in a, iframe:

https://murmurmaps.murmurations.network/clusters/d75e3d45-b07b-4d5e-88ac-d293353a3ec2/embed?showSearch=true

See more examples and instructions for how to create custom embedded maps on the blog.

Community Exchange Projects around the world

WordPress Demos

We have a WordPress Demo site running, using the Murmurations WordPress Collaborative Map Builder Plugin, which shows several demo maps and directories using data from the Murmurations index.

Permaculture Colab

The International Permaculture Collaboration Laboratory (aka CoLab) prototypes and works with tools for collaboration in line with permaculture values: To see what works, and share it with the permaculture community. They have used the Murmurations WordPress Plugins to create a map and directory of strategic permaculture associations and networks worldwide – that is accessible, and eventually able to be updated and maintained by the community. Here’s how they described the advantages of using Murmurations:

Data will be open source and distributed – meaning the data will be available to other mappers. This means mapped entities could be featured on other relevant 3rd party  maps in future, without needing to collect data again. This will be via the pioneering Murmurations protocol. Murmurations is a protocol designed for data interoperability, meaning data can be easily mixed and matched for use cases beyond simple mapping. 

Systems Maps

We are working with the Collaborative Technology Alliance to produce a systems map of the CTA Members, based on bi-directional relationships in the CTA’s and the CTA Member’s Profiles. For example, the map below only shows profiles for CTA Members which have specified their relationship with the CTA using the following code as part of their profile:

{ "predicate_url": "https://schema.org/memberOf", "object_url": "https://www.collaborative.tech/" }

By comparing the relationships in the Member’s profiles with the relationships in the CTA’s own profile the ecosystem map is designed to ONLY show genuine CTA Members.

The Index Explorer

To demonstrate what you can do via the API we built the original Murmurations Index Explorer to provide a graphical user interface for searching the Murmurations Index.

You can use the Index Explorer via the MurmurMaps site.

You can use the Index explorer to search Profile data stored in the Index

Version 1.0 Demos

In February 2021 we were running Version 1.0, of the Murmurations Protocol for which we built some demos:

Community Currency Map

The Community Currency Map demonstrated how Murmurations can be used to build a filterable map and directory of sector specific data. Community Currency projects share their data via a specific Murmurations schema which makes the data interoperable. The demo map and directory were built using the v1 Murmurations WordPress Aggregator.

NB. Version 1.0 has now been deprecated, so the demos are no longer live. You can still use the WordPress Collaborative Map Builder Plugin or MurmurMaps to build maps.