Community Mapping with Participatory GIS

What is GIS?

Geographic Information Systems is...

Data

Place

Why participatory GIS?

Show Community Boundaries

Show Neighborhoods Within Communities

Use Secondary Data to Make Comparisions

Highlight Capacities

And Identify Gaps

Identify Key Areas

Map the Distribution of Risk

Then Plan for Disasters

Manage Natural Resources With Communities

Advocate to Partners

How Can We Do This?

We Can Use Handheld Tools

GPS

Smartphones

Then Transfer to a Computer

Waypoints

Tracks

Or We Can Go Low Tech

Stay Participatory with Paper

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Stay Participatory with Community Mapping...

And Turn That Data into Maps

Using Internet Tools

To Digitize The Process

Use your maps for community-level analysis and planning

And pass the data to GIS staff / partners for more complex analysis