The positive educational experiences of mapping collected during several years of shared projects and work among the University, schools of different grades and levels and the Municipality of Modena, have created the basis and interest for an inter-government project. This new project, entitled “Educate with mapping”, involves most of the local governments, educational structures, cultural institutions and private agencies, acting in the local area. Its main intention is to build an intergovernmental network of knowledge and relationships in order to manage and enhance the local collections of mapping, photos and historical documents. The project aims to help schools and the public to use these collections in their school projects in order to gain better understanding of the places they lived in.Maps can show us all the elements of the land and to provide people with awareness of environmental heritage.