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Participatory use of GIS From Pebbles to Keyboards
Jeroen Verplanke
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Redrawing = Re-discussing
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Aerial photos leave less room for disagreement
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Image mapping in Zambia
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Maps and mapmaking Educate Inform and misinform Raise awareness
Make political propaganda Source: G.Rambaldi, 2005
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The power of maps “Maps communicate information immediately and convey a sense of authority” (Alcorn, 2000:11) “By ignoring indigenous names, and barely alluding to the presence of local settlements, maps produced by European explorers in effect declared the land to be empty and available” (Poole, 1998). Source: G.Rambaldi, 2005
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Towards 2-way communication
Spatial data, previously controlled by government institutions increasingly available to and mastered by civil society; SIT integrated into community-centred initiatives through e.g. PGIS, P-GIS, PPGIS, CiGIS, MiGIS, counter mapping, etc. Source: G.Rambaldi, 2005
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From pebbles to keyboards …
Participatory approaches Solid terrain models (P3DM) 2 D scale maps Sketch maps Ephemeral maps Source: G.Rambaldi, 2005
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From pebbles to keyboards …
Participatory approaches P-RS Orto-photomapping Tablet computers GPS Source: G.Rambaldi, 2005
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Visual language symbols (points, lines, polygons and volumes)
Building blocks symbols (points, lines, polygons and volumes) variables (colour, orientation, shading value, shape, size, and texture) Scales (horizontal and vertical) interpretation keys Source: G.Rambaldi, 2005
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What is what? Choosing symbols and their variables.
Visually linked to real world features Culturally significant Culturally acceptable Consistently applied Source: G.Rambaldi, 2005
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Questions of ownership …
Who decides on what is “important”? Who selects symbol and variable to depict given feature ? If made public, who decides on what to display on the map and its legend ? Source: G.Rambaldi, 2005
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Who owns the Legend? … ultimately Who owns the pictorial language,
its graphic vocabulary and the resulting message? Who owns the Legend? Source: G.Rambaldi, 2005
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