[Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial ...

[Kurt Menke]

For the last several years I have been working with the National Library of
Medicine to document and teach a minority public health mapping workflow.
The idea is that minority public health organizations have limited staff and
budgets, but have mapping needs. What we came up with is designed for public
health professionals, people who don't have the time to be full time GIS
specialists. So we've outlined and taught a workflow from A) field mapping
with smart phones/tablets, B) bringing the data into QGIS to combine with
other datasets to tell a story/analysis, and C) dissemination over the web
via CartoDB or GIS Cloud. This link is the project synopsis:
http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/about/  The basic goal is to empower
minority communities by teaching them to collect and work with their own
data, versus what is sent to them by the CDC.

 

As part of this, I've been authoring a blog Community Health Mapping
http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/ . The blog is written at a layperson
level of technical detail and serves to keep the workflow current with
rapidly developing technology. It also is forum for case studies and new
advances in community health mapping tools. There are several case studies
written by guest bloggers. One of these was written by several high schools
students in a poor island near Charleston, SC, who I trained to map their
neighborhood in an afternoon.
http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/2015/02/11/community-health-maps-cond
ucts-a-training-in-the-south-carolina-lowcountry/   They were really excited
to be able to use their phones to do this work!

 

I have also developed a public health mapping course with six labs, built in
the same style as the GeoAcademy courses. It essentially takes a student
through the workflow. The labs are in beta at the moment but will be freely
available once completed. 

 

To date we've trained public health professionals in Charleston, SC,
Seattle, WA, Honolulu, HI, and Tuskeegee, MI. It has been very successful
and a lot of fun. This work has been presented at several FOSS4G meetings in
past years. 

Cheers,

Kurt

 

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