This is not your grandmother's online map: Advancing your mission with GIS tools

this is NOT your grandmother's online map! advancing your mission with GIS tools 10 April 2010 – NTC'10 33.7555 N // 84.3918 W

this IS an online map of your grandmother

Maps tell powerful stories about the communities and the world in which we live. Maps are a visualization tool, a way to help us transform columns of data into useful knowledge about the people and places around us.

Ewww... TEXT! Boring and unhelpful!

Hooray for Maps!

Acronym Alert! GIS = Geographic Information System

maps are important

“gerrymandering”

A Tale of Two Maps...

A brief history of mapping...

Snow's Cholera Map, London, 1854

Bunge's Maps of Poverty, Detroit, 1971

The old days...

counter-mapping

Geographic Information Systems ●formal ●analytical ●costly ●.gov, .com, .edu PARTICIPATORY! DATA AND TOOLS MAPS FOR THE SHOULD BE FREE! PEOPLE! BOTTOM UP! NOT TOP DOWN! neogeography!

http://www.lvejo.org

Common Uses of Nonprofit Maps Storytelling/Advocacy/Activism ● Program/Service Delivery ● Research/Analysis ● Fundraising/Development ● Community Resource/Asset Mapping ●

Program and Service Delivery

Storytelling / Advocacy / Activism

Research and Analysis

Fundraising / Development

Kira Marchenese Environmental Defense Fund

Purpose of map: Why? Data: What? Where? Tools: How?

Stakeholder participation Privacy Discrimination Accessibility Intellectual property

Data: What are we mapping? Our data – existing databases and spreadsheets Data from government, academic, or other organizational sources Data obtained from commercial data providers Data obtained from the community

Data Acquisition Challenges Practical: availability, quality, scope Legal: licensing, copyrights, etc. Technical: incompatible formats, technology, etc. Financial: cost, both to obtain data and to format/edit it

First Name Last Name Address City State ZIP Status Alice Alpha 123 Apple Way Anytown US 10001 Donor Bob Bravo 456 Birch Dr Anytown US 10001 Volunteer Carol Charles 789 Cactus Rd Anytown US 10002 Donor Dave Delta 12 Dogwood St Anytown US 10002 Staff “CSV is the de facto data format standard for one-time exports and data migration projects.” Source: Peter S. Campbell and the awesome folks at Idealware.org: http://www.idealware.org/articles/data_exchange_alpha_soup.php

Data Digression... CSV – Comma-separated values KML – Keyhole Markup Language (Google)

SHP – Shapefile (ESRI/Arc*)

Data Digression... Geocoding 45°31′12″N 123 Main St. 122°40′55″W

http://data.gov

http://geodata.gov

http://www.census.gov

SEDAC: Socioeconomic Data & Applications Center

ECAI: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative

United States National Atlas

GeoBase.ca

GeoGratis – Natural Resources Canada

VisibleGovernment.ca

Data.gov.uk

Ordnance Survey - UK

Zillow.com Neighborhood Boundary Files

Base Maps: The Layer Underneath is Often Overlooked Google Yahoo Bing OpenStreetMap OpenAerialMap NASA (Blue Marble) USGS ... Any WMS tile server

Balloon + Camera = DIY Aerial Photography! (grassrootsmapping.org – Shipibo, Lima, Peru)

Google Map of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya

http://mapkibera.org

OpenStreetMap (global)

Maps of the people... by the people: Collecting data from the community

WaterGoodness.org

The Mystery of #PDXboom

David Kobia Ushahidi

The Neogeographer's Toolbox: Asking the right question Picking the right tool Playing well with others

Selecting the right tool for the job Features vs. Requirements Simple vs. Sophisticated Proprietary vs. Free/open source Expensive vs. Free/low-cost Browser-based vs. Desktop-based Components vs. Integration

Quick 'n' Dirty Mapmaking

Getting started with web-based mapping Google Maps OpenStreetMap Google MyMaps GeoCommons Finder GeoCommons Maker Google Fusion Tables Mapping

GeoCommons Finder! and Maker!

Geo-Content Management System (Drupal + Google Maps API)

Mixing and Mashing... API – Application Programming Interface Web Services GeoRSS, GeoXML, GeoJSON Location-based Services Twitter Foursquare, etc.

Warden's Facebook Data Crawl Results

Floating Sheep's “Beer Belly of the US”

Mapping Application Architecture

Services Tile providers: OSM/T@H Google Maps Bing Maps Database services: Google API SimpleGeo GeoNames VoteSmart Sunlight API GeoCoder.us

Components and Libraries OpenLayers – JS map rendering in-browser Mapstraction – JS library for abstracting mapping provider interfaces Mapnik – C++/Python rendering on server or client ModestMaps – Flash (AS2, AS3) and Python slippy map generation

Mapnik – Shaded Relief

Modest Maps – Flash Slippy Map

Desktop Mapping ESRI's ArcGIS tools GRASS, QuantumGIS, uDIG Google Earth

Tanya Keen Google Earth Outreach

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This is not your grandmother's online map: Advancing your mission with GIS tools

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