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First Nations Policy Atlas
Bring scattered research into one working view.
Built for a policy analyst, First Nations Policy Atlas brings Ontario community records, treaty context, historical school records, and organizational affiliations into a searchable research workspace. Record details keep supporting sources and research limitations close at hand.
Captured September 20, 2026. Illustrative map; geographic-review caveat and attribution retained.
- Built by
- Leggett Labs
- Made for
- Ontario policy research
- Sources
- Publicly available information
The need
Information is available. Working with it is another task.
Community directories, mapping datasets, historical records, and organization publications each provide part of the picture.
Research involves moving between those sources, tracking relationships, and remembering what is established and what still needs checking. The Atlas was built to organize that work around an analyst’s research process.
The application
A workspace that keeps context attached.
Explore geographic context
Bring community, treaty, and historical school layers into the same research interface. Representative points and illustrative treaty polygons provide context while retaining their stated limitations.
Follow relationships to their evidence
Open a community record or organization profile to inspect affiliations, supporting links, recorded dates, and review notes. Unverified information and differing sources remain visible.
How it works
From a research question to the supporting source.
Find a starting point
Search for a community or choose the records relevant to your research.
Explore the context
Open a record and review its location information, organizational relationships, and research notes.
Check the evidence
Follow the linked sources and review dates and limitations before drawing conclusions.
The Leggett Labs contribution
Software shaped around the work.
Leggett Labs translated a policy analyst’s research needs into a custom web application: searchable records, geographic context, connected organization profiles, and source information presented within the same workflow.
The project demonstrates how a focused tool can organize complex information around the people who need to use it.