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Building Grassroots GIS Capacity: Making the Case with Data

Building Grassroots GIS Capacity: Making the Case with Data. What one practitioner learned the hard way. CLT Network Grassroots National Conference Building Community…. Learning Together Portland, Oregon August, 17 2005. Assess Relationship of GIS and Data to Mission & Goals.

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Building Grassroots GIS Capacity: Making the Case with Data

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  1. Building Grassroots GIS Capacity: Making the Case with Data What one practitioner learned the hard way. CLT Network Grassroots National Conference Building Community…. Learning Together Portland, Oregon August, 17 2005

  2. Assess Relationship of GIS and Data to Mission & Goals Tools needed to Support Mission and Goals • Fundraising • Story Telling • Portray or describe a problem or situation • Demonstrate inequities/differences. • Evaluation • Depict current conditions versus improved or degraded or future or past conditions. • Planning, Organizing and Advocacy • Maps and Data drives us to ask questions, to change, to consider other possibilities. They encourage us to develop a theory to share widely for discussion and action.

  3. Typical Maps – Community Profile • Location map. Where is your geographic area? • Neighborhood in the city. • City in the state. • Streets, landmarks. • Aerial or ortho photo. Dated. • Zoning or development map with parcels • Demographic information • Population • Income • Ethnicity • Housing Profile

  4. Organizational Capacity • Board and management buy-in • (i.e. they need to believe this relates to the mission or helps accomplish the mission.) • Budget • Ideally there is a line item in the organizational budget for technology and a separate line for GIS that includes personnel and training. • Dedicated Staff Resources • To learn • To manage and document • To build capacity and pursue resources • Skilled or knowledgeable staff • Someone with an aptitude for technology • Sustainability • Document work, data sources, metadata.

  5. Internal Technology Capacity • Minimum Hardware Needs • Platform PC-Intel Operating System Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6a (or) Windows 2000 (or) Windows XP (Home Edition and Professional) Memory 256 MB RAM Processor 800 MHz or comparable. Or higher • Internet Access • 56 K or faster • Tech Support, warranties, licenses, etc. • Who do I call if it breaks • Transportable Media, • Zip Drive, Flash Drives, Writeable CDs, etc. • Print and Presentation Capabilities

  6. Internal Technology Capacity • Software • Microsoft Office Excel or other spreadsheet software. • Mapping GIS Software • Pitfalls. There are lots of mapping software packages out there. We spent way too much time investing in multiple packages such as • ESRI’s Arcview 9.0 (My favorite) • Community Maptitude (A HUD package) • Map Info • Internet Web Browser • Anti-Virus and other System utilities

  7. Integrate with other applications • Community Viz. • GIS-based analysis and real-world 3D modeling that allows people to envision land use alternatives and understand their potential impacts, explore options and share possibilities, examine scenarios from all angles — environmental, economic, and social — and feel confident in their decisions. • Business Planning software • Analytical Packages

  8. Where to get the Base Maps • City Assessor’s Office • State GIS Offices • Census maps • ESRI

  9. Where to get The Data • Federal, State, Local Agencies • Online sources. • Buy it. Business Data • Create your own. • Review the data.

  10. External Capacity • Universities • Planning, Policy, Geography Departments • Student volunteers • Classes • Field projects, • Thesis projects and Case studies • Formalize a partnership • Don’t reinvent the wheel each time. • Archiving and data storage assistance

  11. External Resources • Newspapers and TV stations • Planning agencies (City, Regional, State) • Environmental Agencies • Partner Agencies (other nonprofits) • Funders • Consultants • Web-based Online Mapping resources

  12. Interactive Mapping examples • Mass State GIS • www.Massgis.com • Boston Atlas http://www.mapjunction.com/places/Boston_BRA/main.pl?ht=768 • 3D Affect is nice with VRML • Enviromapper • Maps.epa.gov • Census Factfinder • http://factfinder.census.gov

  13. Cool websites • Data Place: Knowledgeplex http://dataplace.knowledgeplex.org/cds/map/index.html?buid=10:2538715&rm_ind=1&z=1\ • Neighborhood Knowledge California. http://nkca.ucla.edu/Master.cfm?CFID=51018&CFTOKEN=24948895 • Google maps Maps.google.com

  14. More resources Policy Link’s- Equitable Development Toolkit http://www.policylink.org/EDTK/Mapping/default.html Lincoln Institute of Land Policy http://www.communitylots.org/toolbox/gis/index.html

  15. Resources/Software/TA • www.compumentor.org/ • www.techsoup.org/index.html • software and hardware discounted or donated to nonprofits. • www.giftsinkind.org/newhome/ • Connections to Dell, HP,Microsoft for donations and resources • ww.communityviz.org & www.orton.org • www.progressivetech.org/Resources/index.htm • Fantastic Information

  16. Planning Web Sites • www.smartcityradio.com (NPR radio show) • www.urbanicity.org (international) • www.planum.net (European) • www.cyburbia.org (oldest planning portal for urban planners • www.Planetizen.org • www.planning.org (APA) • www.aboutplanning.org • www.ablinc.net/tpr

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