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Open Source Software for online mapping. A presentation by the MAIN Trust describing and demonstrating the use of community data in online maps

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Use of geodata in

open source GIS

programs

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The community groups

Generational amnesia

Community groups can

be responsive and

nimble

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The following are examples of a

variety of sources of community data

which we use in online GIS

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Demo of live mapping sites using Open Source Software

• Puke Ariki - a sample map relating research held in Kete

New Plymouth, “Word on the Street’

• Pest trapping data entry and analysis for community groups

• Trapping results from Egmont National Park

• Penguin sightings – show how records may be added by the

public, and then the results queried

• Information about and images of the Te Henui River

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With acknowledgement to Taranaki Regional Council for the aerial imagery

Other projects MAIN Trust NZ has running online:

• Login-specific editable layers for land use change

• Seashore transect species entry for schools and researchers

• Site mapping of plants and cultural values

• Ecosanctuary projects

• School tree planting

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