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The São Tomé Map Project

The São Tomé Map Project. Empowering People Through Geographic Information Systems. Jeff Ginger and Sarah Jackman | Professor Jon Gant | 12.09.2009 | Geographic Information Systems Fair 2009 Graduate School of Library and Information Science | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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The São Tomé Map Project

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  1. The São Tomé Map Project Empowering People Through Geographic Information Systems Jeff Ginger and Sarah Jackman | Professor Jon Gant | 12.09.2009 | Geographic Information Systems Fair 2009 Graduate School of Library and Information Science | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2. Developing and Documenting a Process • Stages • Strategic objective planning • Data-collection: São Tomé e Príncipe field team • Inventory & digitization • Research and dissemination • Current research projects • Extensible digital map library (Greenstone) • Collaborative imagine annotation (Omeka) • Spatial data infrastructure development (ESRI ArcGIS and Google Maps)

  3. From Paper to Shapefile c. 1970 Military Topography Maps - Contain buildings, roads, geographic features, rivers, topography lines, etc.

  4. From Paper to Shapefile …Overlaid on to modern satellite image

  5. From Paper to Shapefile …from which students digitized building and street layers for the capital city of São Tomé.

  6. Spatial Data Infrastructure? No addresses, few street names, little codified local knowledge. So now what?

  7. Future Applications • We have additional geography maps to develop that could help address agricultural, environmental and health issues • These maps can be valuable assets for civic development projects (addressing system, social services, changing political districts, etc..) • This kind of spatial data infrastructure development might work in alternative contexts (countries & academic institutions)

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