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Showing posts with label mapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mapping. Show all posts
Sunday, June 04, 2017

UAS or drone mapping versus conventional methods - cost and benefit analysis - two cases in Africa

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The use of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) in aerial mapping applications is increasingly being used as an appropriate surveying met...
Friday, September 02, 2016

Powerful maps: how building 3D models is helping rural communities to make their voices heard

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A process of building three-dimensional physical models in a village setting is helping to bring together traditional and modern scientific ...

Making Maps, Third Edition: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS

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Lauded for its accessibility and beautiful design, this text has given thousands of students and professionals the tools to create effect...
Monday, August 22, 2016

#12614 – Book Launch and Reception for ‘The power of maps: Bringing the third dimension to the negotiation table’, a CTA Success Stories publication on participatory GIS practice

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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016, Hawai’i, USA,  Friday, 2 September 2016, 19:30-21:00 Room 314-UNDP Kauhale Abstract of the ...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Five steps of making a map with small drones

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Traditionally all features on a map were represented in the form of symbols whose spatial characteristics, like location, size and shape, ...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Being on a map means to exist: the Saramaccan experience

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Saramaccan communities in Suriname seek government’s recognition of their traditional knowledge On 23 February 2016, 18 Saramaccan commun...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Mapping for Change: Practice, technologies and communication - 10 years have passed - publication still valid and available

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This CD “ Mapping for Change: Practice, technologies and communication ” includes a selection of papers presented at the “Mapping for Chan...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Beneath the Surface ~ Mapping Union Island - A P3DM exercise, 2013

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Here is the story of a participatory mapping exercise done on Union Island in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean. The sec...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Participatory 3D Modelling in Tobago - Live radio broadcasts - podcasts

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

ICTs for Climate Change Adaptation: Introduction of innovative technologies in the Caribbean

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Starting at the end of this week Tobago will host a very interesting event. Close to 200 residents of the island will come together in a t...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Pastoralists seek water and peace in Chad: Account of a participatory mapping exercise in the Sahel

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BAÏBOKOUM, CHAD: 31 July to 11 August 2012, the Association des Femmes Peules Autochtones du Tchad (AFPAT), in cooperation with the Secret...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops: Carbon & Culture

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The Surui Cultural Map shows the Surui tribe of the Amazon's vision of their forest, including their territory and traditional histo...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Mapping is Power

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Set in the Altai Republic of Russia in southern Siberia, Mapping is Power follows cultural specialist Maya Erlenbaeva and shaman Maria ...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Mapping Indigenous Lands, Ep 1 - Dave De Vera, Philippines

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Dave De Vera, executive director of PAFID  is an advocate in rights based approaches and expert in participatory mapping (in particular...
Friday, June 15, 2012

The power of information: Map Kibera uses GIS, SMS, video and the web to gather community data

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The Map Kibera project works with young people from one of Africa’s biggest slums. They use GIS, SMS, video and the web to gather data and...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Climate Change and African Political Stability dynamic mapping tool released

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The Strauss Center’s Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program and AidData recently released a dynamic mapping tool...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Feedback on the P3DM experience in Boeboe, Solomon Islands, through the eyes of a woman

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25 May, 2012 HONIARA - We asked Ms. Winifred Piatamama who took part in a participatory 3D modelling exercise which took place in Febru...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

New Tools in Mapping for Disasters and Development

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“New Tools in Mapping for Disasters and Development” was co-hosted by InterAction’s NGO Aid Map Team and the World Bank’s Global Facility f...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Association Okani Participatory Mapping Video, Cameroon

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This participatory video produced by Association Okani shows the impacts of illegal logging on forest peoples' customary use of reso...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Participatory 3D Modelling of Manus Island, PNG

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Participatory 3D modelling (P3DM) activity supported by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and partners in 2011 in PNG to help residents of Man...