1. CIPPIC Summer Speaker Series
A little bit about mapping
Tracey P. Lauriault, Amos Hayes, D. R. Fraser Taylor
Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University
(http://gcrc.carleton.ca)
Data, Maps, Location and Law
Wednesday May 30, 2012
Room 102 Fauteux Building, Noon – 2PM

2. GCRC
• GCRC is an official Research Centre in the Department of Geography and
Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
• Research focus on the application of geomatics to the understanding of
• socio-economic issues,
• the theory of cartography and
• cartographic education in an international context.
• It has capacity in a broad range of activities in the field of GIP
• The centre currently focuses on 12 interrelated research themes
• Cybercartography • Indigenous Knowledge
• Archiving and Preservation • Northern Research
• Law and Policy • Nunaliit
• Geospatial Information Management • Open Source
• Interoperability • Sound
• Global Map • Cinema
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Overview

3. GRCR Research Centre Funding
• SSHRC • Government of Canada
• Initiative on the New Economy (INE) • HRSDC - Data Development Projects
Major Collaborative Initiative Grant on Homelessness Program
• Image, Text, Sound and Technology • Heritage Canada - Gateway Fund
(ITST) Strategic Grant
• Statistics Canada, Geography Division
• INE Outreach Grant & Standard
Research Grants
• Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade Grant
• International Polar Year
• Natural Resources Canada
Canada
• NSERC • Canada Foundation for
• Indian & Northern Affairs Innovation (CFI)
• Canadian International Polar Year
Secretariat Office
• Scientific Committee on
Antarctic Research
• Government of Nunavut
• Inuit Heritage Trust
• Inukshuk Wireless
• Kitikmeot Heritage Society
(NPO)
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Overview

4. CivicAccess.ca
http://datalibre.ca/links-resources/

5. Mapping

6. Blue Marble
Joseph Campbell “the society of the Planet” from the Power of the Myth
in reference to the Blue Marble Image released by NASA in 1972

7. Global Map
ISCGM: http://www.iscgm.org/cgi-bin/fswiki/wiki.cgi
Data Use Agreement: http://www.iscgm.org/agreement.html
GCRC & Global Map: https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Global+Map

8. National Mapping
http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

9. Forest – Atlas of Canada
1st Edition 2nd Edition 3rd Edition
6th Edition
4th Edition
5th Edition

10. Communication - – Atlas of Canada
1st Edition 2nd Edition
3rd Edition
4th Edition
5th Edition

11. Treaties - – Atlas of Canada
5th Edition

12. Empires Map – Atlas of Canada
2nd Edition, circa 1914

13. Resisting a spatial arrangement
View of Land Parcel Survey Grid around Winnipeg Manitoba, Agri-Map viewer, accessed November 4, 2011
http://geoapp2.gov.mb.ca/website/MAFRI/html_parcels3/asp.htm?Title=ArcIMS%20Parcel%20Information%2
0Viewer.

14. Commission Mapping
• Bilingual Districts
Advisory Board, 1971 & 1975
• Bilingualism and
Biculturalism, Royal
Commission on, 1965 &
1967

15. Medical Officers of Health
http://emis.santemontreal.qc.ca/ http://www.communityview.ca/

16. Cities
www.toronto.ca/wellbeing

17. Community Data Program
https://communitydata-donneescommunautaires.ca

18. Social Data Portals
Data are inaccessible to researchers
Data access is controlled
http://www.municipaldata-
donneesmunicipales.ca/Site/Collection/en/index.php
http://hifis.hrsdc.gc.ca/index-eng.shtml

19. Social Planning Network of Ontario
Geographical and Numeric Information Systems (GANIS) is a working group formally
charged by the Social Planning Network of Ontario to coordinate data and GIS activities for
member organizations (http://www.spno.ca/)

20. Social Planning Council of Ottawa
Data & Software
- CIMS Infrastructure (Open Source)
- Health Districts(Viewing only)
- Community Social Data Strategy Data (Viewing only)
- Geogratis Data (unrestricted use)
- Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (Viewing only)
- Community created data sets (Viewing only)
- City of Ottawa Ward Boundaries (Open Data)
Using Population Health Data to Profile the Health
and Well-Being of Children and Youth in Eastern Ontario
http://www.cims-scic.ca/CYHNEO_atlas
Community Information and Mapping System (CIMS)
(http://www.cims-scic.ca/)

21. Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
Community Data Program Member - Social Planning Council of Winnipeg (http://www.spcw.mb.ca)

22. Community Data Canada
http://cdc-dcc.info/mandate.php

23. Mapping at the GCRC

24. Cybercartographic Atlases
Cybercartography is a new theoretical construct proposed by D.R.
Fraser Taylor (1997, 2003).
It is the organization, presentation, analysis and communication of
spatially referenced information on a wide variety of topics of
interest and use to society in an interactive, dynamic, multimedia,
multisensory and multidisciplinary format. Beyond its multiple
specificities (Taylor, 2003), cybercartography offers an unprecedented
opportunity for deeply rethinking the way we design, produce,
disseminate and use maps on the Internet. These changes require a
new cartographic paradigm that can be approached from different
perspectives.

25. ISIUOP – Participatory Data Collection
Data & Software
- Nunaliit Cybercartographic Atlas Framework (BSD)
- Geogratis Framework & Topographic Data (Unrestricted terms of use)
- Flow lines collected by different hunters (Shared rights)
- More sensitive data – e.g. Bear Dens, sacred sites, environmentally
sensitive data are for viewing & use by the community only
- Data will become part of IPY Canada
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/ISIUOP/Inuit+Sea+Ice+Use+and+Occupancy+Project+(ISIUOP)

26. Nunaliit iPad Data Capture app
Community:
• Wished access was faster and atlas and
data were housed in community
• Wished adding content was easier
• Needed flexibility for types of data and
metadata to be saved and how to present
it
Nunaliit:
• Distributed network of replicating nodes,
including nodes in communities, and on
mobile
• Simplified data collection app replaces
half a dozen devices for offline data
collection
• Document oriented database with data
and applications loosely connected via
flexible schema system

27. Inuit Siku (sea ice) Atlas
http://sikuatlas.ca/sea_ice_map.html?module=1

28. Lake Huron Treaty Atlas
http://atlas.gcrc.carleton.ca/lakehurontreaties/

29. Law and Policy
Mapping the Legal and Policy Ethics and Consent in Arctic Digital
Boundaries of Digital Cartography Research
(SSHRC Partnership Project) - Interdisciplinary, historical & cultural
study of consent
- Examine Consent Models in the North
- Centre for Law, Technology and
- Consult w/ northern data contributors
Society
- Consult w/ researchers & officials
- Natural Resources Canada
- GCRC & CLTS will Develop a data consent
- Geomatics and Cartographic model
Research Centre - GCRC to Build a data collection consent
framework into data collection technology

30. Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness
– Partnership Data Sharing
Data & Software
- Nunaliit
Cybercartographic Atlas
Framework ( BSD)
- Data Liberation Initiative
(DLI) Statistics Canada
(Restricted use)
- FCM QoLRS (Viewing only)
- City Neighbourhood
framework data files
(Viewing only)
- Toronto Community
Housing (Viewing only)
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Atlases

31. City of Toronto – Aging Social Housing Stock
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Atlases

32. Atlas of Antarctica
http://atlases.gcrc.carleton.ca/antarctic/ter
ritorial/territories.xml.html
http://atlases.gcrc.carleton.ca/antarctic/int
ro/intro.xml.html#introduction

33. Federal Election Sound Map
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Sound

34. GCRC – Guiding Principles
• Products produced w/public funds belong to the public
 Whenever possible open access comes first
 BSD License
 Use data from open access sources
 Creative Commons
 Share as much as possible
 Publish in Open Access Journals
 Create and use open source software, tools, widgets, etc.
 Design for open source browsers
 Participate in open access, open data, open source for a
 Build in consent and data access protocols into data collection tools
 Conduct research on access to data, consent, law and policy
 Encourage these principles in public consultations
 Education & Capacity building
 Adhere to interoperability standards and specifications
 Data Preservation