GIS

What is it?

Combining

Data

with

Place

What is data?

All data is spatial

How does data get into a GIS?

Your data

+

Place data

GIS files on the inside

Where does place data come from?

The old days

Modern times

In the field

or

The internet

Vector Data

Points

Lines

Polygons

Raster data

Satellite imagery, aerial imagery, balloon imagery, etc.

Followed by

Data analysis

And then mapped

...by stacking data layers

Decisions based on evidence, not guessing

Discussion:

What is your most important/interesting data?

Community Mapping with Participatory GIS

What is GIS?

Geographic Information Systems is...

Matching

Data

With

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

as in

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

In Sum:

Fieldwork + Internet Tools + Basic Skills = Maps