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Community Mapping Network (CMN)

Challenges Entered: 
A wealth of natural resource information integrated with local data and knowledge, presented to meet specific area of interest or community requirements.

 

What else have you done in this area of work?

 

CMN has over 60 customized web mapping applications tailored to meet the needs of many communities of interest. These applications are address national bio-regional and specific community needs. CMN hosts the first (2005) and possibly still the only fully interactive GIS based "Green Map" instance http://www.shim.bc.ca/atlases/greenmap/Index.cfm

Since 2000, CMN has been building a diverse collaboration with stewardship organizations with other ENGOs and with local governments to help change the way we care for our local environments. CMN believes freely sharing data about the "commons" is a critical step in avoiding the "tragedy of the commons"

Locations

Vancouver, BC
Canada
Canada
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Project Location: 
Vancouver, BC

Find Your Watershed

Challenges Entered: 
As demonstrated in the prototype, visitors to the Find Your Watershed mashup will be able to identify their watersheds through a variety of search options. They will observe how watersheds 'nest' within each other at multiple, concentric scales and find a variety of watershed-scale data.Many additional types of information are relevant at the watershed scale. One analysis that we would like to perform, funding permitting, is to assess the percentage of each watershed covered by impermeable paving - a key indicator of overall watershed health. There are also many pre-existing datasets - EPA data on toxic releases or US Geological Survey data on stream flow - that could be incorporated.Most importantly, we will provide links to groups that are working on the ground in each watershed and make it easy for users to connect with those groups.

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