Community Mapping

Participatory Geoweb

communitymaps — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:39:38 +0000

Community mapping takes a new turn. From sand, to paper, to the computer monitor and now to the internet. Using maps to engage people…

Anyway I am trying to get this blog back on line after a three year hiatus. Embarrassing!

Asset-Based Community Development Institute

communitymaps — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:48:52 +0000

ABCD spreads its findings on capacity-building
community development in two ways: (1) through extensive and substantial
interactions with community builders, and (2) by producing practical resources
and tools for community builders to identify, nurture, and mobilize neighborhood
assets.

Community Building Resources

communitymaps — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:40:59 +0000

A small business in Edmonton Alberta that assists community groups and organizations by
providing fun and effective workshops and facilitation for Community Capacity
Building and Asset Mapping. Good links to resources and references for Community capacity building and Asset Mapping.
http://www.cbr-aimhigh.com/links.htm

Evergreen

communitymaps — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:28:16 +0000

Mapping My Community.
Outline of steps to a community mapping project. Good layout of procedures and evaluation. Evergreen provides funding to community mapping projects through Common Grounds.

Centre for Community Mapping

communitymaps — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:21:23 +0000

The Center for Community Mapping seeks to unify and strengthen
communities by offering individuals, non-profit organizations, and
educational institutions the tools to help manage their interests.
Fosters participatory planning, community education, and cooperative
organization. Collaborative mapping supports and facilitates an
integrated approach to environmental conservation, open-space and
historic preservation, neighborhood revitalization and urban planning,
community asset inventories, and economic development as well as
expands awareness of local needs, issues and special places as
determined by the community’s own members.
USA focus, offers links to GIS tools.

Open street map

communitymaps — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:16:42 +0000

OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing
free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The
project was started because most maps you think of as free actually
have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people
from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways.

Serves as a portal for community mapping projects happening collaboratively in countries around the world

Environmental Research Mapping and Information Systems in Africa

communitymaps — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:03:46 +0000

The network makes it possible for PGIS and community mapping
practitioners working with local resource dependant communities share
knowledge, ideas, experiences, skills and strategies so as to secure
positive intangible cultures, territories and commonly shared natural
resources thereby promoting good PGIS approaches, technologies and
ethics within the region.
Resource that facilitates information sharing between practitioners working in east, central and southern africa

Islands in the Salish Sea Community Mapping Project

communitymaps — Sat, 05 May 2007 19:50:56 +0000

The Islands
in the Salish Sea Community Mapping Project engaged
over 3,000 people and involved everything from school
kids with clipboards to oral history with elders to
reviews of scientific data. More than 30 local artists
then brought these layers of accumulated information
to life in unique and remarkable maps
Good
example of community engagement through artistic renderings of the
landscape. Clear visuals that all can
understand and that attract observation -
good for making postcards, posters etc to spread exposure and awareness of visual layout of landscape to broad community.

Urban Explorer

communitymaps — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:05:29 +0000

Interactive map-based tools for City Planners, Urban Designers, Economic Development
Professionals, community-based and non-profit groups. These GIS
tools are well-suited for collaborative, real-time decision-making,
as assumptions can be quickly tested via the user-friendly map-based
interface. Also, given that the tools are web-based, individual
stakeholders can continuously test assumptions.
InfoAlameda Community Planning Website
An easy-to-use interactive géoflash
Explorer™ County-wide Flash-based GIS Interface which displays a
variety of demographic, economic and health-related data across a
variety of scales from block-group up to County-wide, enabling users to
easily compare geographies to each other.

Miami based Community Mapping project

communitymaps — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:53:55 +0000

An
interactive, web-based GIS System which city planners and project
managers use to generate customized demographic, project related
reports for any selected area within Miami-Dade County. This tool
will help users determine appropriate public involvement strategies
for identified target populations.