The document discusses the project 'Putting Cascales on the World Map,' which aims to promote sustainable local economies and environmental practices in Cascales, Ecuador, through participatory mapping. It highlights challenges such as lack of security and infrastructure, while emphasizing the importance of mapping for tourism and community engagement among various indigenous groups. The initiative seeks to leverage open-source mapping tools to document and share local knowledge and resources.

1. Putting Cascales on the
World Map

2. Contents
1 Putting Ecuador on the Map
2 Cascales Issues
Our people / actors
3
4 Participatory Mapping experience
5 Q & A for the project

3. Ecuador is…
Cotopaxi
…landscape Miracles
Mountains
Galapagos Great for
tourism
Legacy
Rainforest

4. …also…
Little
known
Biodiverse
“Easy”
Spanish
No
present
Nat'l tourism conflicts
policies
…and many natural resources good practices
because of many ethnic nationalities…

5. Cascales location
…Province:Sucumbios, Canton: Cascales,
Parroquia: El Dorado de Cascales

6. Cascales location on OSM

7. Cascales location on OSM

8. The project
aims to
Exchange
sustainable
Help local
natural
economies
resources
developing a
good
non existent
practices.
market

9. So…
We Need
to
Elicit territorial Build together
local with locals on
Knowledge of OSM, geo data sets
indigenous practices
in order to provide the
for a sustainable
blogging community to
environment
show their way to
indigenous groups.

10. Why OSM?
 Maps are readily available (but not for
Cascales …)
 OSM community has a collaborative and
environmentally friendly culture
 Many OSMers use blogs and free maps to
find destinations and show their tracks
 Ecuatorian National Spatial Information is
Free and Open

11. Assumptions and market
Search
Use Back for new
Maps packers destinations

12. Cascales Issues
Lack of Security
Infras Guerrilla Land
tructure Erosion
Workforce Narcotraffic and
Colony misuse
Oil explotation
Crowd out tourism
and other activities

13. Our actors
Put Cascales on the map
OSM
global community
Ethnic Tourists
Municipality Volunteers
Groups

14. Our people
Kichwa Nationality
Propose
sustainable
natural
e Cofan Nationality
resources
projects to
municipality to
Shuar Nationality
be mapped

15. Kichwa Nationality
Art crafting with natural materials…

16. Cofan Nationality
…efficient use of natural and energy resources…

17. Shuar Nationality
…and protection of rainforest management
practices

18. P- Mapping experience in Colombia
1. Getting community together…
Pictures courtesy of Angela Lopez U. Cartographer

19. P- Mapping experience in Colombia
…2. Eliciting community knowledge…
Pictures courtesy of Angela Lopez U. Cartographer

20. P- Mapping experience in Colombia
…and finally 3. Showing and sharing results
Pictures courtesy of Angela Lopez U. Cartographer

21. Geo Information Issues
 Participatory mapping and sustainable
environment practices survey
 Existing National Spatial Data
Infrastructure
 Census data is about to be delivered next
september
 Interoperability is time consuming and
critical

22. Project planning
Send layers to Back
packers
Blog
Community G-Tag practices
Transfer OSM
Know How
Environment Practices
Load to OSM Thematic Maps
Get Nat'l GDB
Base Maps

23. Opportunities and Challenges
1 2 3
New locations and Little funding is We need support to
valuable knowledge needed to produce train our people on
is produced… are base and thematic OSM … how can we
there others OSMers maps but still not work together?
working on similar available…how can
cases? we find sponsors?

24. for ANY comments
Jotacarranza
jotacarranza@gmail.com