Interactive Platform

Welcome to the WIMBY Interactive Platform: a collaborative digital space for mapping, simulation, and dialogue on wind energy

 

The WIMBY Interactive Platform empowers stakeholders to visualise, simulate, and collaboratively discuss wind-power development across Europe. Combining an advanced WebGIS system with a user-driven interactive forum, the platform enables informed, inclusive decision-making on the future of wind energy.

Start simulations, comment on geospatial data, and join discussions with experts, policymakers, local communities, and other users. Whether you’re a citizen, researcher, or industry representative, the platform welcomes your insights.

WebGIS: visualise data, assess impacts, plan better

The WIMBY WebGIS is a powerful geospatial tool designed to:

  • Visualise wind resources and spatial constraints
  • Explore potential impacts (environmental, technical, social, economic)
  • Support both continental-level and local-scale assessments
  • Download key datasets (wind patterns, landscape quality, LCA results, etc.)

Unlike existing platforms, WIMBY’s WebGIS integrates multidimensional data from across the project to reflect real-world trade-offs and opportunities: helping users make sense of complex information.

Key features:

  • Intuitive interface to navigate spatial layers
  • Zoom into specific areas of interest
  • Understand implications for safety, regulation, funding, and job creation
  • Link directly to user comments and forum threads

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General Forum: a space to discuss and collaborate

The WIMBY General Forum is a digital hub for multi-stakeholder interaction. Linked directly to the WebGIS, the forum allows users to:

  • Comment directly on the map, associating remarks with specific locations
  • Start and reply to threads on wind energy challenges, benefits, and concerns
  • Use tags to sort and filter topics
  • Engage in cross-sector exchanges with citizens, authorities, businesses, energy communities, researchers, and more

Forum goals:

  • Empower citizens and communities
  • Facilitate knowledge-sharing across disciplines
  • Improve transparency and social acceptance
  • Support informed, inclusive planning

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How it was built: co-creation process

Through workshops, iterative feedback, and ongoing dialogue, the design and functionalities of the platform have evolved to reflect real needs and perspectives.

The platform is designed to be:

  • Responsive on desktop and mobile
  • Accessible following WCAG 3.0 guidelines (AA level)
  • Customisable (e.g. dark mode, follow threads)
  • Multilingual: Interface available in English, Norwegian, Italian, Portuguese, and German. While user comments are not auto-translated, we suggest using tools like DeepL for smooth interaction.

 

Join the WIMBY Community

Whether you’re here to explore data, voice concerns, share knowledge, or propose new ideas: your contribution matters.

👉 Sign in now to start mapping, commenting, and collaborating on a sustainable wind energy future.