The document discusses how public participatory GIS can empower communities by allowing them to create maps using technologies like the Google Maps API. It provides examples of how environmental groups have used interactive mapping applications with Google Maps to involve the public, collect and share local data, and raise awareness of issues. The use of these technologies lowers the cost and technical barriers to using GIS for community organizations.

1. Public Participatory GIS Empowering Communities with Google Maps API Dr. Wansoo Im VERTICES, LLC UGIC 2009 Conference Midway, UT

4. Five Components of GIS Source: http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/OceanTeacher2/02_InfTchSciCmm/01_CmpTch/03_GIS&SDI/01_Fundamentals/Components.html

5. Five Components of GIS Source: http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/OceanTeacher2/02_InfTchSciCmm/01_CmpTch/03_GIS&SDI/01_Fundamentals/Components.html

7. Interoperability “ capability to communicate, execute programs, or transfer data among various functional units in a manner that requires the user to have little or no knowledge of the unique characteristics of those units” Source: OGC Abstract Specification Topic 12: Services. Derived from ISO 2382-1.

8. GIS Example in Watershed Organizations

9. What has changed?

22. IMRivers (Interactive Mapping Rivers) ‏ An Internet Mapping Portal for Watershed Communities

37. GIS Web Services USGS NJDEP GIS Application NOAA Google NJDOT

38. USGS NJDEP GIS Application NOAA Google NJDOT GIS Web Services (Web 2.0) ‏

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66. Mobile GIS

67. "Connecting People and Connecting Communities" - Empowering the Public and Communities with GIS Technology -

68. Wansoo Im, Ph.D. email: wim@vertices.com http://www.vertices.com http://www.ppgis.info