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Presentation examining the strategies (why?), data and maps (what? where?), and tools (how?) for awesome nonprofit mapping and geographic information projects.
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this is NOT your grandmother'sonline 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 aboutthe 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 andunhelpful!
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
Bunge's Maps of Poverty, Detroit, 1971
Bunge's Maps of Poverty, Detroit, 1971
Bunge's Maps of Poverty, Detroit, 1971
The old days...
counter-mapping
Geographic Information Systems
neogeography!
●formal●analytical●costly●.gov, .com, .edu
MAPS FOR THEPEOPLE!
DATA AND TOOLSSHOULD BE FREE!
BOTTOM UP!NOT TOP DOWN!
PARTICIPATORY!
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 andspreadsheets
Data from government, academic, or other organizational sources
Data obtained from commercial dataproviders
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 StatusAlice Alpha 123 Apple Way Anytown US 10001 DonorBob Bravo 456 Birch Dr Anytown US 10001 VolunteerCarol Charles 789 Cactus Rd Anytown US 10002 DonorDave Delta 12 Dogwood St Anytown US 10002 Staff
“CSV is the de facto data format standard for
one-time exports anddata 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...
123 Main St. Geocoding 45°31′12″N 122°40′55″W
http://data.gov
http://geodata.gov
http://www.census.gov
SEDAC: Socioeconomic Data & Applications Center
ECAI: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
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
GoogleYahooBingOpenStreetMapOpenAerialMapNASA (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
Quick 'n' Dirty Mapmaking
Quick 'n' Dirty Mapmaking
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!
GeoCommons Finder! and Maker!
GeoCommons Finder! and Maker!
Geo-Content Management System(Drupal + Google Maps API)
Mixing and Mashing...
API – Application ProgrammingInterface
Web Services
GeoRSS, GeoXML, GeoJSON
Location-based ServicesTwitterFoursquare, etc.
Warden's Facebook Data Crawl Results
Floating Sheep's “Beer Belly of the US”
Mapping Application Architecture
Services
Tile providers:OSM/T@HGoogle MapsBing Maps
Database services:Google APISimpleGeoGeoNamesVoteSmartSunlight APIGeoCoder.us
Components and Libraries
OpenLayers – JS map rendering in-browser
Mapstraction – JS library for abstractingmapping provider interfaces
Mapnik – C++/Python rendering on server orclient
ModestMaps – Flash (AS2, AS3) and Pythonslippy 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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