Last fall all of our neighbors gathered for a Map Your Neighborhood meeting. I live in a rural neighborhood of 1 to 5 acre lots in the San Juan Islands. The information was collected and a month or so later I received a hand drawn map with house #'s and approx locations and propane tank locations. After I got a copy of Depiction I thought it would be a perfect application for this. So I created an excel file and entered the names and addresses of all of the neighbors along with their skill sets and resources they had. I then saved that file as a CSV file. Then I made a copy of that file and eliminated the skill set info and replaced it with Propane tank size and then saved that file. I opened up depiction and created a story for our neighborhood. I created a new element for Propane tanks and found an icon on the internet doing a google search for propane tank icon. The aerial photo that Depiction brought in wasn't very current so I went out to Google maps and did a print screen of the same area. I opened the image in Picassa and cropped it to show the area I wanted and then saved it as a JPG. Then I imported that image as an image file in Depiction and then geo-aligned it (see this tutorial for details). I also had a parcel map jpg of the island which I opened in Picassa an cropped down to the area I wanted and saved it. I imported it as an image file and geo-aligned it. Then I imported my two excel files. Since I only had property addresses the geocoding didn’t place the icons in the exact locations, since the Tiger file only approximates the location based on street number. So next I moved each house icon to the location of the houses and the propane icons to the location of the propane tanks. When I was done I had a much more accurate visualization of the neighborhood with more exact locations and an easily update able spreadsheet of neighborhood information. All in all I think Depiction is a perfect fit for Map Your Neighborhood.