All papers in this session are 17 minutes, including time for questions.
Countermapping in Ojibwe Country: Bad River Water&Culture Maps ProjectJessie Conaway, University of Wisconsin Madison, Nelson Institute for Environmental StudiesThe Bad River watershed of northern Wisconsin is a natural boundary that encompasses both tribal and non-tribal communities who have mobilized around protection of water against threats of mineral mining, climate change, and aquatic invasive species. The watershed provided a space for community-based research (CBR) that shed light on the importance of water quality to the integrity of the place. Countermapping, which is use of western cartography tools for indigenous purposes (Peluso, 1995), illuminates Ojibwe spatial narratives as undercurrents of relationships to the homeland and the immense importance of water in Ojibwe culture. Participatory mapping that emphasizes cultural “storymapping” is appropriate for work in an indigenous community, as it engages collective leadership and modes of narrative communication. Participatory watershed mapping in the Bad River Ojibwe community involved elders and youth, and resulted in the multi-media Bad River Water & Culture Maps Project. The maps remain in the Bad River community as a durable product of CBR, for use in education, outreach, and policy efforts about water stewardship and sovereignty.
Deep Map: An Open Source Web Map BuilderDeanne Lundin, Penn State UniversityDEEP MAP is an open source web mapping application that collects--and connects--places and the people interested in them. Inspired by projects like Mapbox and CartoDB, Deep Map also aims to make web mapping easy so users can focus on content. Extending this to better integration of text, media, and other content, Deep Map will be a “place of places” where users develop their own projects using a rich user interface that makes an easy-to-configure layout into a place-centered exhibit or collaboration. Its larger mission is to enable bioregional projects easy to create and to connect. With the addition of spatial analysis tools, custom layers, and tools for text analysis, Deep Map binds geographic data with text data. Using Leaflet and OSM data, DM is built with javascript open source solutions (Angular, Node, PostGIS) so developers will find it easy to contribute, extend, or fork.
Creating and disseminating GIS data for the US and the WorldDavid Van Riper, Minnesota Population Center Jonathan Schroeder, Minnesota Population Center Tracy Kugler, Minnesota Population Center The Minnesota Population Center creates and disseminates GIS data delineating historical and contemporary administrative and statistical units for most countries of the world. This talk describes the MPC GIS data collection, including the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS), Terra Populus, and IPUMS-USA, and the production process we have developed over the last 14 years.
https://speakerdeck.com/nvkelso/creating-and-disseminating-gis-data-for-the-us-and-the-worldGeodata CoverageGeoffrey A. Forbes, LAND INFO Worldwide MappingI will be discussing options for geodata coverage of the US and other countries, with special focus on recent releases; current, updated materials; and previously unavailable datasets. Data layers to be covered will include topographic mapping, aerial/satellite imagery, vector data, DEMs and land-use/land-cover.
