GIS/mapping

GIS (Graphical Information Systems) and Mapping technologies have grown in popularity in recent years, proportional to their decrease in cost. With the recent advent of GoogleMaps, YahooMaps and Microsoft's Virtual Earth API, all available for free on the Web, both advanced programmers and individuals with more rudimentary skills have taken on mapping projects in an effort to display complex data, catalyze activism and even merely show off and play around. The 10 case studies selected in this publication focus on GIS mapping projects primarily in the context of advocacy work in North America. Although this is somewhat regrettable from a diversity-in-geography standpoint, the studies all vary in focus, technology, organizational goals and staffing. Table of Contents: Case Study: Canari - The Caribbean Natural Resources Institute; GIS/Mapping: Case Studies; Case Study: Eyebeam R&D - ForwardTrack, FundRace.org; Case Study: Free Press; Case Study: GreenInfo; Case Study: Southern Echo, Inc.; Case Study: Kofiase, Ashanti Region, Ghana - Conflict Management; Case Study: Human Rights Watch Off Target Project; Case Study: Stamen Design - MoveOn.org; Case Study: Relationship Mapping.