Exploring GIS Technologies for Participatory Mapping

Sumandro Chattapadhyay | @ajantriks
Sajjad Anwar | @geohacker

geohackers.in

OpenStreetMap

Humanitarian OSM - HOT

Quick access to on-ground information. Saving lives.

Haiti

Map Kibera

Cholera Map - John Snow

Ushahidi

Tools

Collect, Coordinate, Visualize

  • Potlatch
  • JOSM
  • Walking Papers

Ushahidi

Geocommons.com

Ushahidi

MapBox

QGIS

Questions?


1. What is the kind of data you want to work with?
2. For what purpose?
3. To be shared with which audience?
4. What does sharing the data mean for the subjects of the data (the people who are affected by the data)?

Map Data from OpenStreetMap Project | Watercolor and Toner Tiles from Stamen Design