The document outlines various 'free-ish' mapping tools explored during the IMW2014 event, involving over 40 Indigenous communities and academic researchers in Canada. Key tools discussed include Google Earth for 3D mapping and occupancy studies, various Google Maps features for editing and creating cultural maps, as well as open-source options like Quantum GIS and geolive.ca. It emphasizes the importance of these tools in facilitating community mapping and storytelling, alongside mentions of collaborative initiatives to promote Indigenous mapping.

1. IMW2014 Tools Scan
A brief answer to the question:
“What ‘free-ish’ mapping tools were
explored at IMW2014?”

2. http://imwcanada.earthoutreach.org/
Held in Victoria BC on
25-28 August 2014
Representing more than
40 First Nations, Metis and
Inuit communities,
community-based mapping
practitioners, and university-based
researchers from
across Canada

3. Acknowledgments
IMW2014 was organized and hosted by:
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs – Don & Angie Bain
University of Victoria, Anthropology – Prof. Brian Thom & Team
The Firelight Group – Steve Deroy, Rachel Olson & Team
Google Earth Outreach – Raleigh Seamster & Crew

4. Here is the list of Tools we’ll peek at:
1. Google Earth – 3D placemaking, with advanced examples Amazon and Australia
2. Google Earth for Use & Occupancy Mapping – With an introduction to Firelight Group's
Direct-to-Digital UOM/TUS methodology
3. Google Earth, Tour Builder – Make a tour of your Territory
4. Google Earth Engine – Environmental Impact analysis tools?
5. Google Earth Engine – Forest change
6. Google Earth Engine with Fusion Tables – Share and visualize tabular data
7. Google Earth and GPS/Photos – Getting your monitoring data uploaded
8. Google Maps, MapMaker – Request additions/changes to maps in your Territory
9. Google Maps, Street View – Adding your own data & spheric photographs
10. Google Maps, Views – Street View highlights, without the street!
11. Maps Engine Lite plus Google Forms and Sheets – A cultural map toolkit
12. Google Maps Coordinate - Workforce management tool for mobile teams
13. Open Data Kit – Mobile multimedia field monitoring forms
14. GeoLive.ca – Placemaking and placenames tool with multimedia
15. Quantum GIS + LibreOffice Base – Desktop GIS for the whole office!
16. Ecotrust map icons – Amazing (desktop GIS format) icons for cultural mapping

5. Tool #1. Google Earth
• Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and
geographical information program. It maps the
Earth by the superimposition of images obtained
from satellite imagery, aerial photography and
geographic information system (GIS) 3D globe.
• As of October 2011, Google Earth has been
downloaded more than a billion times.
• For some parts of the surface of the Earth, 3D
images of terrain and buildings are available
• Available free or US$399/year for Pro
http://www.google.com/earth/

6. Easy to add points, lines and polygons
At IMW2014, we also
discussed uploading a
Shapefile or KML file.

7. Limited but effective pop-ups & styling

8. How are screen overlays different from image overlays?
Screen overlay (e.g. logos) Image overlay (e.g. thematic map
layer)
#1 Screen overlays are anchored relative to the screen.
Image (ground) overlays are anchored relative to the ground.
#2 Image (ground) overlays can be added with the toolbar button.
Screen overlays are added in the KML code.
#3 In the above examples, the legend and logos are screen
overlays and the wetland map is a image (ground) overlay.

9. Google Earth Example #1
• Surui Cultural Map
• 5yr collaboration
• “Trading Bows and
Arrows for Laptops:
Carbon and Culture.”
• Surui created points of
interest (POIs) that reflect
their traditional culture’s
close interdependency
with their forest home.
http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/06/surui-cultural-map.html

10. Google Earth Example #2
• Ngarluma Ngurra
Cultural Map
• “When Aboriginal
people walk on the
land, the land is
happy” – Geoffrey Togo,
Ngarluma Elder
• FORM is a recipient of
the Google Earth
Outreach grants
program
http://www.form.net.au/project/ngarluma-ngurra/

11. Google Earth Example #3
• Embed Google Earth in a webpage as a YouTube
link or using the Earth Embed Gadget
http://cherokee.wildsouth.org/video
http://www.google.ca/earth/outreach/tutorials/kmlembed.html

12. Tool #2. Google Earth for UOM
Doing Use & Occupancy Mapping (UOM)
(Traditional Use Studies) with Earth using
the Direct-to-digital methodology…
Courtesy of The Firelight Group
Courtesy of The Firelight Group

13. Direct-to-digital
D2D uses Data Diamonds
introduced by - Terry Tobias in
Living Proof…
Activity
(what)
Time period Person
(when) (who)
Location
(where)
Living Proof is available for $50 at
http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/livingproof/index.html
…but tries to dramatically reduce the
time required to process interview data
while also helping interviewees find
locations using Earth’s 3D maps.

14. Direct-to-digital Folder Examples
Being very organized is the key to success…

15. Google Earth UOM Example #1
Snuneymuxw Land Use and Occupancy

16. Google Earth UOM Example #2
Lekwungen Territory Ethnographic Mapping project

17. Tool #3. Google Earth Tour Builder
https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/
Tour Builder is a
new way to show
people the places
you've visited and
the experiences you
had along the way
using Google Earth.
It lets you pick the
locations right on
the map, add in
photos, text, and
video, and then
share your
creation.

18. Tool #4. Earth Engine – EIA
Tools for assisting with Environmental Impact Assessments…
• Storytelling
through time
series
• Useful pre-computed
products (see
next slide)
• You can also
upload your
own data
vector or
raster data
http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/hss/workshops/ManoMarks.pdf

19. Timelapse analysis example
https://earthengine.google.org/timelapse

20. Summary ● Easily accessible satellite imagery
and vectors (or your own data)
● Methods for performing analyses
with those data
● Parallelized and run in the Google
cloud
● Download results or export to Maps
Engine
Imagery Classification Demo
http://earthengine.google.org
EE API Demo
http://ee-api.appspot.com

21. Make your own Timelapse tours...

22. Tool #5. Earth Engine – Forest Change
https://earthengine.google.org/timelapse
• Access 40 years of
cloud-free satellite
imagery
• Make your own
time lapse movies:
http://bit.ly/toured
itor

23. Global forest change data produced using Earth Engine
http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest

24. GPS on your mobile device Tool #6. Earth Engine with Fusion Tables
• Upload large
(100MB)
tabular data
• Easy
visualization
• Easy mapping
• Customize info
windows
• Customize
shapes
• Spatial
Queries!
• FusionTableLay
er in Maps API
• Fusion Tables
API

25. http://www.whrc.org/education/tanzania/Presentations/ee_advanced_jgi_2012_day4.pdf

26. GPS on your mobile device
Tool #7. Google Earth and GPS/Photos
Android Phones & Tablets iOS: iPhone, iPad
Collect tracks on your phone or tablet using the tools listed above.

27. Watch a video tutorial about GPS
uploads at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NkgeoClHrQ

28. You can get geocoded photos (EXIF metadata stores lat/long) into Google Earth by using
Google’s Picasa application. Select the photos you want to view in Earth and click Tools >
Geotag > Export to Google Earth File.

29. Tool #8. Google Maps – MapMaker
Join the army of people making changes to Google Maps. Add points, routes, places and
building outlines for your community. Sign for free. All chnages are moderated, but
changes are published quickly!
http://www.google.ca/mapmaker/

30. Join the MapMaker community…
https://sites.google.com/site/mapmakerpedia/

31. Tool #9. Google Maps - Street View
https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview
Google Trike in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut,
August 23, 2012
Google Streetview of Kitsumkalum,
Terrace, BC

32. http://www.google.com/maps/about/behi
nd-the-scenes/streetview/
Street View coverage (as of August 2014)

33. DIY - Add imagery to Street View
Collect your own 360° panoramas using an iPhone, Android
device (Photo Sphere app), or Ricoh Theta…. and submit
them to Street View.

34. Note that Google Earth Outreach has Trekker &
Tripod Loans available…

35. Tool #10. Google Maps - Views
https://www.google.com/maps/views/
• Storytelling
through
Streetview
imagery

36. You link to (but not embed, yet) Views on your website
http://fas-amazonas.org
https://www.google.ca/earth/outreach/stories/fas.html

37. Tool #11. Maps Engine Lite plus Google
Forms and Sheets
Dr. Brian Thom: “We can
crowd-source Google Maps
Engine Lite by using tools in
Drive like Forms and Sheets…”

38. … then import the Sheet into Maps
Engine Lite

39. … and on the import
Google Maps Engine will
geocode your data…
… and ask you which
column to use to label
your placemarks…

40. Share a link to your map…
Set your privacy
settings…

41. And then…. view in Android with
Google Maps Engine for Android App!

42. Tool #12. Google Maps Coordinate
http://maps.google.com/coordinate
Real-Time Visibility
Maps Engine Pro now
includes Maps Coordinate,
our easy-to-use tool for
managing mobile teams.
Get more done by giving
the right jobs to the right
people at the right time.
• Google Maps Coordinate runs on GPS-equipped
Android and Apple smart
phones
• The price for Maps Engine Pro is $5 per
user and month.

43. Tool #13. Open Data Kit
• Open Data Kit (ODK) is a free and open-source set
of tools which help organizations author, field,
and manage mobile data collection solutions.
Parts:
– Build a data collection form or survey (XLSForm is
recommended for larger forms);
– Collect the data on a mobile
device and send it to a server; and
– Aggregate the collected data
on a server and extract it in
useful formats.

45. Create forms
ODK Collect
Analyze Data
Submit Data to
Maps Engine
Validate
Collect Data
Google Maps Engine &
Google Earth Engine
ODK Build (simple) XLS
Forms (complex)
Publish Maps
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46. Create forms with ODK Build

48. Effort (yellow) and
threats (red) collected
by village forest
monitors using ODK
around Gombe National
Park, Tanzania

49. Tool #14. GeoLive.ca
http://geolive.ca
GeoLive is a flexible
and extendable
online participatory
mapping tool,
designed to facilitate
communities’ ability
to capture, manage
and communicate
their stories.
Check out the Taku
River Tlingit live map:
http://trt.geolive.ca/

50. Tool #15. Quantum GIS + LibreOffice
http://www.qgis.org
http://libreoffice.org
From IMW2014 talk
Saulteau Goes Open Source
by Donovan Cameron.
• “We track referrals in a flat file
database (LibreOffice, free), using
forms to populate. Every member of
our team has Quantum GIS (free)
installed on their workstation, and
they can explore spatial impacts.”

51. Tool #16. Ecotrust Map Icons
http://ecotrust.ca/first-nations/new-our-cartography-department
• Formatted in EMF, which
preserves vectors and
can be modified in
drawing programs or
used directly in ArcGIS.
• All icons in the collection
are freely available
under Creative
Commons licensing for
download and use by
mappers, through the
Aboriginal Mapping
Network.

52. Follow-up
https://sites.google.com/site/mapyourworldcommunity/indigenous-mapping
Invitation: Host a
“MapUp” in October
In partnership with the
National Indian Education
Association, Google Map
Maker, Google Earth Outreach
and the Google American
Indian Network are proud to
present Google's Map Your
Indigenous Community
Month this October, 2014.

53. Note:
This scan is not comprehensive. There were many tools demonstrated during the first two days of
IMW@2014 that I do not have images for. And, I could not be at every workshop session.
If I have omitted a tool that should be in this list, please email me at charles@geomemes.com.
I would be very happy to include more free-ish tools!
IMW2014 Tools Scan Slidedeck
assembled by Charles Burnett
GeoMemes Research | UVic Geography
charles@geomemes.com
IMW2014 slidedeck slides were re-used with permission.
You can find the original workshop slide decks at
http://imwcanada.earthoutreach.org/training-materials