• Collaborative Geomatics for Social Innovation

and Sustainability

The Centre for Community Mapping (COMAP) is a not-for-profit

corporation that deploys information technology and communications

strategies to strengthen the functioning and sustainability of civil society.

Centre for Community Mapping (COMAP)

A context-based social network with application services for

education, health, environment, culture,social and economic development

Web Informatics Development Environment (WIDE)

Applications(COMAP Datacentre)

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People Interest

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Web Informatics Development Environment (WIDE)Software as a Service (SaaS):

• “Programming” has effectively been replaced with a declarative methodology, a wizard or forms-based approach to building Web-based systems.

• This approach allows faster systems development permitting an iterative build for user-centred design

Strategies: (beyond Google)

• A common map for collaborative applications managed by communities

• Authoritative content managed by groups using access controls

• On web map feature and attribute data entry

• An atlas of navigable layered applications

• Social network services for social innovation (self-organization)

• Mapadit sustainability service

• Sensitive data management policy set by communities of practice

Context-based social network services

Why?

Systemic change requires systemic response

Collaborative applications and proposals: Secure, cross-scalar, inter-agency, inter-sectoral: Program Driven: Stewardship Tracking System, Ontario Drinking Water STS, Smoke Free Ontario Performance Indicator Monitoring System Ontario Stewardship, Species at Risk, Science/Data Driven: Ontario Stream Information System, OFAH Invasives Tracking System, ELC, FISHWEB Community Driven: Monitoring the Moraine, Mennonite Heritage Portrait, Caledon Community Alliance, Waterloo Region Arts Council Portal, West Montrose Cultural Landscape Survey, Cambridge Built Heritage, PlayscapeWR, First Nations Systems Neighbourwoods, Ontario Trails Council,Creative Muskoka Atlas, Environmental Farm Plan

Portraying our passion forlocal cultural heritage

– community histories – stories, – artifacts, – paintings, – sculpture, – music, – poetry, – photographs, – video– the buildings and landscapes and much more

are among the most powerful tools for consolidating a sense of place and building social capital in communities.

Narratives with ‘WIKI’ Links

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• Collaborative Geomatics for Social Innovation

and Sustainability