IMW2014 Tools ScanA brief answer to the question:

“What ‘free-ish’ mapping tools were explored at IMW2014?”

http://imwcanada.earthoutreach.org/Held in Victoria BC on 25-28 August 2014

Representing more than 40 First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities, community-based mapping practitioners, and university-based researchers from across Canada

AcknowledgmentsIMW2014 was organized and hosted by:

Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs – Don & Angie Bain

University of Victoria, Anthropology – Prof. Brian Thom & Team

The Firelight Group – Steve Deroy, Rachel Olson & Team

Google Earth Outreach – Raleigh Seamster & Crew

Here is the list of Tools we’ll peek at:1. Google Earth – 3D placemaking, with advanced examples Amazon and Australia2. Google Earth for Use & Occupancy Mapping – With an introduction to Firelight Group's Direct-to-Digital UOM/TUS methodology3. Google Earth, Tour Builder – Make a tour of your Territory4. Google Earth Engine – Environmental Impact analysis tools?5. Google Earth Engine – Forest change 6. Google Earth Engine with Fusion Tables – Share and visualize tabular data7. Google Earth and GPS/Photos – Getting your monitoring data uploaded8. Google Maps, MapMaker – Request additions/changes to maps in your Territory9. Google Maps, Street View – Adding your own data & spheric photographs10. Google Maps, Views – Street View highlights, without the street!11. Maps Engine Lite plus Google Forms and Sheets – A cultural map toolkit12. Google Maps Coordinate - Workforce management tool for mobile teams 13. Open Data Kit – Mobile multimedia field monitoring forms14. GeoLive.ca – Placemaking and placenames tool with multimedia15. Quantum GIS + LibreOffice Base – Desktop GIS for the whole office!16. Ecotrust map icons – Amazing (desktop GIS format) icons for cultural mapping

Tool #1. Google Earth

• Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and geographic information system (GIS) 3D globe.

• As of October 2011, Google Earth has been downloaded more than a billion times.

• For some parts of the surface of the Earth, 3D images of terrain and buildings are available

• Available free or US$399/year for Pro

http://www.google.com/earth/

Easy to add points, lines and polygons

At IMW2014, we also discussed uploading a Shapefile or KML file.

Limited but effective pop-ups & styling

How are screen overlays different from image overlays?

#1 Screen overlays are anchored relative to the screen.     Image (ground) overlays are anchored relative to the ground.#2 Image (ground) overlays can be added with the toolbar button.      Screen overlays are added in the KML code.#3 In the above examples, the legend and logos are screen overlays and the wetland map is a image (ground) overlay.

Screen overlay (e.g. logos) Image overlay (e.g. thematic map layer)

Google Earth Example #1

• Surui Cultural Map• 5yr collaboration• “Trading Bows and

Arrows for Laptops: Carbon and Culture.”

• Surui created points of interest (POIs) that reflect their traditional culture’s close interdependency with their forest home.

http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/06/surui-cultural-map.html

Google Earth Example #2

• Ngarluma Ngurra Cultural Map

• “When Aboriginal people walk on the land, the land is happy” – Geoffrey Togo, Ngarluma Elder

• FORM is a recipient of the Google Earth Outreach grants program

http://www.form.net.au/project/ngarluma-ngurra/

Google Earth Example #3• Embed Google Earth in a webpage as a YouTube

link or using the Earth Embed Gadget

http://cherokee.wildsouth.org/video

http://www.google.ca/earth/outreach/tutorials/kmlembed.html

Tool #2. Google Earth for UOM

Courtesy of The Firelight Group

Doing Use & Occupancy Mapping (UOM) (Traditional Use Studies) with Earth using the Direct-to-digital methodology…

Courtesy of The Firelight Group

Direct-to-digitalD2D uses Data Diamonds introduced by - Terry Tobias in Living Proof…

Activity (what)

Time period Person(when) (who)

Location (where)

Living Proof is available for $50 at http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/livingproof/index.html

…but tries to dramatically reduce the time required to process interview data while also helping interviewees find locations using Earth’s 3D maps.

Direct-to-digital Folder ExamplesBeing very organized is the key to success…

Google Earth UOM Example #1Snuneymuxw Land Use and Occupancy

Google Earth UOM Example #2Lekwungen Territory Ethnographic Mapping project

Tool #3. Google Earth Tour Builder

https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/Tour Builder is a new way to show people the places you've visited and the experiences you had along the way using Google Earth. It lets you pick the locations right on the map, add in photos, text, and video, and then share your creation.

Tool #4. Earth Engine – EIA

Tools for assisting with Environmental Impact Assessments…

• Storytelling through time series

• Useful pre-computed products (see next slide)

• You can also upload your own data vector or raster data

http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/hss/workshops/ManoMarks.pdf

Timelapse analysis example

https://earthengine.google.org/timelapse

Summary● Easily accessible satellite imagery

and vectors (or your own data)● Methods for performing analyses

with those data● Parallelized and run in the Google

cloud● Download results or export to

Maps Engine

Imagery Classification Demohttp://earthengine.google.org

EE API Demohttp://ee-api.appspot.com

Make your own Timelapse tours...

Tool #5. Earth Engine – Forest Change

https://earthengine.google.org/timelapse

• Access 40 years of cloud-free satellite imagery

• Make your own

time lapse movies: http://bit.ly/toureditor

Global forest change data produced using Earth Engine

http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest

GPS on your mobile deviceTool #6. Earth Engine with Fusion Tables

• Upload large (100MB) tabular data

• Easy visualization

• Easy mapping• Customize info

windows• Customize

shapes• Spatial

Queries!• FusionTableLay

er in Maps API• Fusion Tables

API

http://www.whrc.org/education/tanzania/Presentations/ee_advanced_jgi_2012_day4.pdf

GPS on your mobile device

Android Phones & Tablets iOS: iPhone, iPad

Tool #7. Google Earth and GPS/Photos

Collect tracks on your phone or tablet using the tools listed above.

Watch a video tutorial about GPS uploads at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NkgeoClHrQ

You can get geocoded photos (EXIF metadata stores lat/long) into Google Earth by using Google’s Picasa application. Select the photos you want to view in Earth and click Tools > Geotag > Export to Google Earth File.

Tool #8. Google Maps – MapMaker

http://www.google.ca/mapmaker/

Join the army of people making changes to Google Maps. Add points, routes, places and building outlines for your community. Sign for free. All chnages are moderated, but changes are published quickly!

https://sites.google.com/site/mapmakerpedia/

Join the MapMaker community…

Tool #9. Google Maps - Street View

https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview

Google Trike in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, August 23, 2012

Google Streetview of Kitsumkalum, Terrace, BC

http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/

Street View coverage (as of August 2014)

DIY - Add imagery to Street ViewCollect your own 360° panoramas using an iPhone, Android device (Photo Sphere app), or Ricoh Theta…. and submit them to Street View.

Note that Google Earth Outreach has Trekker & Tripod Loans available…

Tool #10. Google Maps - Views

https://www.google.com/maps/views/

• Storytelling through Streetview imagery

You link to (but not embed, yet) Views on your website

http://fas-amazonas.orghttps://www.google.ca/earth/outreach/stories/fas.html

Tool #11. Maps Engine Lite plus Google Forms and Sheets

Dr. Brian Thom: “We can crowd-source Google Maps Engine Lite by using tools in Drive like Forms and Sheets…”

… then import the Sheet into Maps Engine Lite

… and on the import Google Maps Engine will geocode your data…

… and ask you which column to use to label your placemarks…

Share a link to your map…

Set your privacy settings…

And then…. view in Android with Google Maps Engine for Android App!

Tool #12. Google Maps Coordinate

Real-Time VisibilityMaps Engine Pro now includes Maps Coordinate, our easy-to-use tool for managing mobile teams. Get more done by giving the right jobs to the right people at the right time.

http://maps.google.com/coordinate

• Google Maps Coordinate runs on GPS-equipped Android and Apple smart phones

• The price for Maps Engine Pro is $5 per user and month.

• Open Data Kit (ODK) is a free and open-source set of tools which help organizations author, field, and manage mobile data collection solutions. Parts:– Build a data collection form or survey (XLSForm is

recommended for larger forms);– Collect the data on a mobile device

and send it to a server; and– Aggregate the collected data on

a server and extract it in useful formats.

Tool #13. Open Data Kit

Create forms

ODK Collect

Submit Data to Maps Engine

Analyze Data

Validate

Collect Data

Google Maps Engine & Google Earth Engine

ODK Build (simple) XLS Forms (complex)

Publish Maps

Create forms with ODK BuildNear realtime data collection

Create forms with ODK Build

Effort (yellow) and threats (red) collected by village forest monitors using ODKaround Gombe National Park, Tanzania

Tool #14. GeoLive.ca

GeoLive is a flexible and extendable online participatory mapping tool, designed to facilitate communities’ ability to capture, manage and communicate their stories.

Check out the Taku River Tlingit live map: http://trt.geolive.ca/

http://geolive.ca

Tool #15. Quantum GIS + LibreOffice

From IMW2014 talk Saulteau Goes Open Source by Donovan Cameron.

http://www.qgis.orghttp://libreoffice.org

• “We track referrals in a flat file database (LibreOffice, free), using forms to populate. Every member of our team has Quantum GIS (free) installed on their workstation, and they can explore spatial impacts.”

Tool #16. Ecotrust Map Icons

• Formatted in EMF, which preserves vectors and can be modified in drawing programs or used directly in ArcGIS.

• All icons in the collection are freely available under Creative Commons licensing for download and use by mappers, through the Aboriginal Mapping Network.

http://ecotrust.ca/first-nations/new-our-cartography-department

https://sites.google.com/site/mapyourworldcommunity/indigenous-mapping

Follow-up

Invitation: Host a “MapUp” in October

In partnership with the National Indian Education Association, Google Map Maker, Google Earth Outreach and the Google American Indian Network are proud to present Google's Map Your Indigenous Community Month this October, 2014.

IMW2014 Tools Scan Slidedeck assembled by Charles Burnett GeoMemes Research | UVic Geographycharles@geomemes.com

IMW2014 slidedeck slides were re-used with permission. You can find the original workshop slide decks athttp://imwcanada.earthoutreach.org/training-materials

Note:This scan is not comprehensive. There were many tools demonstrated during the first two days of IMW@2014 that I do

not have images for. And, I could not be at every workshop session.

If I have omitted a tool that should be in this list, please email me at charles@geomemes.com. I would be very happy to include more free-ish tools!