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Using the Geoweb

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Throughout history, mapmakers have been much sought after. They created representations of landscapes that could be used for exploration, military or trade purposes. The maps they drew, however, often only represented the ideas and perspectives of the people who paid for the maps: kings, armies and business leaders. In other words, people who already wielded substantial power.But in the last 15 to 20 years, mapping applications and technology has developed so rapidly that mapmaking has moved more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on July 05, 2010

The Crises and the Commons: The power of open collaboration for humanitarian relief

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How realistic is open collaboration for development? Can it really work through the social web? CrisisCommons and OpenStreetMaps are good examples: volunteers worldwide combined forces for humanitarian relief.

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on June 05, 2010

Open forum on participatory geographic information systems and technologies (on Facebook)

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PPgis.Net serves as a global avenue for discussing issues and sharing experiences and good practices related to participatory GIS (PGIS) practice and a range of geographic information technologies which are used to support integrated conservation and development, sustainable natural resource management and customary property rights in developing countries and among indigenous people worldwide. The Facebook page features latest updates on participatory mapping and participatory GIS.

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on June 03, 2010

Participatory Mapping and Geographic Information Systems: Whose Map? Who is Empowered and Who Disempowered? Who Gains and Who Loses?

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In recent years, changes in participatory methodologies (PMs) may have been even more rapid than those in spatial technologies. Local people's abilities to make maps only became widely known and facilitated in the early 1990s. In this article Dr. Robert Chambers argues that participatory mapping has spread like a pandemic with many variants and applications not only in natural resource management but also in many other domains. With mapping as one element, there are now signs of a new pluralist more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on June 01, 2010

Rethinking the Power of Maps

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A contemporary follow-up to the bestselling Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways.In Rethinking the Power of Maps, Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of map making and explores the promises and limitations of diverse more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on April 21, 2010

Community Mapping in Tsunami Affected Areas in Aceh, Indonesia

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A touching 10-minute video production on how community mapping has been used in post-Tsunami Aceh, Indonesia.The documentary has been jointly produced by the Indonesia Community Mapping Network or Jaringan Kerja Pemetaan Partisipatif (JKPP), and the Center for people Economic Development or Yayasan Rumpun Bambu Indonesia (YRBI).

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on February 08, 2010

Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) in Divinubo Island, Philippines

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1:400-scale Participatory 3D Model (P3DM) of the the Municipality of Borongan, Island of Divinubo, Eastern Samar, Philippines (Yr 2007). The model was produced in the context of the Samar Coastal Research for Environment and Development (e-SACRED) project and specifically within the framework of a Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) initiative. The model features the collective knowledge of local residents and representatives from the Divinubo People's Organization, the City more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on January 11, 2010

Participatory 3D Modelling: a Review ...

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Giacomo Rambaldi makes a a summary of his involvement in the improvement, development, promotion and dissemination of a participatory mapping method better known asl Participatory 3D Modelling (P3DM). Participatory 3D Modelling (P3DM) is a community-based mapping method which integrates local spatial knowledge with data on elevation of the land and depth of the sea to produce stand-alone, scaled and geo-referenced relief models. Essentially based on local spatial knowledge, land use and cover, more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on October 11, 2009

Practical Ethics in Participatory GIS (PGIS) practice

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Each profession and culture carries moral parameters and codes of ethics. As Participatory GIS (PGIS) is understood as a multidisciplinary practice it is meant to respond to a blend of different moral rules. Practical ethics for PGIS practitioners, facilitators, technology intermediaries and researchers is intended to provide non-exhaustive guidelines for making appropriate ethical choices for those practicing or wanting to practice PGIS.This guidelines are not meant to be exhaustive, as each more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on October 06, 2009

Participatory GIS, Public Participation GIS and Community Mapping Literature

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Exhaustive collection of literature related to Participatory GIS (PGIS), Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) and Community Mapping. The merging of participatory development methods with geo-spatial technologies has come to be known as Participatory GIS and is now an emergent development practice in its own right. PGIS combines a range of geo-spatial information management tools and methods such as sketch maps, participatory 3D models, community-based air photo and satellite imagery more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on September 24, 2009

Special issue of EJISDC on Participatory Geographical Information Systems and Participatory Mapping

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Volume 25 of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) ventures into new ground for the journal, with a special issue devoted to Participatory Geographical Information Systems and Participatory Mapping. The eight articles in this special issue have been selected from papers initially presented at the International Conference on Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication: "Mapping for Change", held in the Kenya College of Communication and more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on September 24, 2009

Participatory 3D Model (P3DM) of Chivoko village, Solomon Islands

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A total of 60 representatives from the Chivoko community including youth, elders, women and men, students and chiefs; representatives from "Sasamunga Live and Learn", The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the "Lauru Land Conference of Tribal Communities" (LLCTC), and the Choiseul Provincial Fisheries constructed a 1:20,000 scale Participatory 3D Model (P3DM) of Chivoko village in the Tavula ward, Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands. The model covering a total area of 192 sq km is the 1st if its kind in more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on September 09, 2009

Participatory 3D Modelling for Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation in Ethiopia

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MELCA Mahiber, an Ethiopian NGO member of the African Biodiversity Network (ABN), facilitated the construction of a large Participatory 3D Model covering 1,575 sq. km (at a 1:12,500-scale) in Bale and West Arsi, Ethiopia. The exercise has been done to assist local communities in planning out a more sustainable management of the area, reviving local bio-cultural diversity and supporting local environmental education.

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on July 26, 2009

Geo-tagging images for development work

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Geotagging photographs has become an increasingly important aspect of community mapping and envronmental advocacy. While the Internet already offers a wide range of online applications (Google Earth, Panoramio, Picasa, Flickr, etc) where to geo-locate images, offline solutions (hardware & software) are still to be made available and hardly known by many. The author o this article has compiled thresults of an online research dividing available devices in three groups: Group one includes more...

Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on July 25, 2009

Community hazard mapping: learning exchange on resilience in Honduras

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Twenty eight community leaders from Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras – primarily grassroots women - together with a large number of local residents gathered in Guadalupe to prepare a community map of this small hurricane prone coastal town in Honduras. This community hazard mapping exercise was part of a four-day, four-country learning exchange, sponsored by GROOTS International’s Community Resilience Program and hosted by Comite de Emergencia Garifuna. The exchange was organized in response more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on November 24, 2008

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