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Tag Archives: GIS

TNC Uses Benthic Habitat Mapping for St. Kitts-Nevis Marine Resource Management

A copy of the paper describing this project by Steve Schill, of The Nature Conservancy. [Read more]

Caribbean Marine Atlas, Points of Contact

A list of the main points-of-contact for the Caribbean Marine Atlas being shepherded by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) through the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) , and the Government of Flanders (Kingdom of Belgium). [Read more]

Grenadines MarSIS – Google Earth Workshops

The Grenadines Marine SIS that has been put together by Kimberly Baldwin and dozens of local residents of the Grenadines (Windward Islands, Eastern Caribbean — split between St. Vincent and Grenada) is a very impressive piece of work — links in … [Read more]

GEOSS in the Americas Symposium::

::GEOSS in the Americas Symposium::. [Read more]

Too Much Useless [Oil] Talk, Not Enough Development

[I’ve been working in overseas development programming since I went to Chile as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1964. Over the past five years I’ve had conversations along the line of the attached valedictory from a dozen or more committed, experienced… [Read more]

Resources for open source mapping — especially community participation

[As far as I’m concerned, the effective transformation of community knowledge to mapped information resource a vital need in most community development work. The resources developed by Giacomo Rambaldi under the IAPAD and PPGIS marks are OUTSTANDI… [Read more]