Using geographic information systems for community and environmental responsibility. Public Participatory GIS provides a means for 'citizen scientists' to not only supply information but to participate in the consultation process. Geographic information technologies are used in participatory settings and to support information gathering.  The value of PPGIS: * community inclusion and engagement are integrated * conservation and development * sustainable natural resource management * discussion of customary property rights The presentation shows examples of projects where information has been collected by community groups and how it made a difference.

1. Using geographic information
systems for community and
environmental responsibility
Supported by Wellington City Council, and
Victoria University School of Geography and Earth Sciences.

3. Public Participatory GIS
This provides a means for 'citizen scientists' to not only supply
information but to participate in the consultation process.
Geographic information technologies are used in participatory
settings and to support information gathering
The value of PPGIS:
• community inclusion and engagement are integrated
• conservation and development
• sustainable natural resource management
• discussion of customary property rights

4. Taken from a presentation to the National Digital Forum 2009

6. Examples of information collected by
community groups and how it made a
difference
• Monitoring
• Land use
• Legal zones and development
• Collecting data

7. Pest trapping records

8. Taranaki Kiwi Trust / DOC / Blue Duck

9. Friends of Pukekura Park, New Plymouth

10. Penguin surveys

11. Bird ‘hot-spots’ - planning recreational access

12. Presentation of survey data.

13. The big-picture for New Zealand
……how all this data relates

14. NZ Biodiversity Data, Dataversity Group.

15. RESOURCES
National Digital Standards
• Government Web standards http://webstandards.govt.nz/standards/nzgws-2/
• Digital NZ http://www.digitalnz.org/
• National Libraries Kete http://kete.net.nz
• Creative Commons licensing is discussed at http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/
Biodiversity resources
• Dataversity http://www.dataversity.org.nz/guide/systems/
• Nature Space http://www.naturespace.org.nz/resource-centre/
Visualising your data with GIS
Open Source
• Quantum GIS - http://www.qgis.org/
• MapWindow http://www.mapwindow.org/
Commercial
• Clark Labs IDRISI particularly for remote sensing http://www.clarklabs.org/
• ESRI Arc http://www.arcgis.com/about/#
New Zealand Datasets online for you to download
• Government Data and Information NZ http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information
• Land Information NZ (LINZ) Charts, surveys, maps, place names and land registration. http://www.linz.govt.nz/
• Koordinates data http://koordinates.com/
• NZ Land Resource Information System (LRIS) http://lris.scinfo.org.nz/
• Statistics NZ http://www.stats.govt.nz/
Speaking the same biodiversity language - interoperability
• Darwin core vocabulary https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key
=0Atnkg51vTagRdFZzLVVXTVhua0Qzc2x3SUU4VDMzNnc&gid=14
• NZ Organisms Register (NIMS) http://www.nzor.org.nz/

16. Contacts and Resources
ECO NZ www.eco.org.nz
What we do > Tools to mange your projects
TERRAIN (Taranaki Community GIS) www.terrain.net.nz
Mapping, Analysis and Information Network Trust NZ
Elise Smith trustmain1@gmail.com
www.datamap.co.nz