This presentation was delivered by Philip Ackerman-Leist and John Van Hoesen from Green Mountain Collage at the 2012 Farm to Cafeteria Conference in Burlington, VT. http://farmtocafeteriaconference.org/6/

1. Mapping the Foodshed and Sharing
YOUR Story
Philip Ackerman-Leist and John Van Hoesen
Green Mountain College

2. “The barriers which deflect
raindrops into one river basin
rather than into another are natural
land elevations, while the barriers
which guide and control
movements of foodstuffs are more
often economic than physical.”
Walter Hedden
How Great Cities are Fed (1929)

3. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/yi1w3t

4. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/yi1w3t

5. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/yi1w3t

6. http://www.radicalcartography.net/animals2007_big.png

7. http://bit.ly/MW37FU

8. Population
Distance
Water
Aspect
Slope
Soils
http://www.spins.or.kr/bd/data/6m3/3$1$gis-layers.jpg

9. http://bit.ly/M8V5Ii

10. (Sui, 2005)

11. “Naïve geography is a necessary underpinning for the design of GISs that can be used
without major training by new user communities
such as average citizens, to solve day-to-day tasks”
Egenhofer and Mark (1995)
“Instead of asking how to find the need or data people want, instead ask how to allow the
public needs to inform and drive data collection and access”
Huang and Chuang (2005)
“Neogeography is about people using and creating their own maps, on their own terms
and by combining elements of an existing toolset. Neogeography is about sharing
location information with friends and visitors, helping shape context, and conveying
understanding through knowledge of place”
Turner (2006)
“This new phase of development is the wikification of GIS, which is driven by the massive
and voluntary contribution among both amateur and experts using Web 2.0 technology”
Sui (2008)
“Another source of interest in GIS becoming a tool of participatory democracy has been
the need to reinvigorate traditional models of citizen involvement in making decisions
about the use of public , natural resources”
Jankowski (2009)

12. http://www.openstreetmap.org/

13. http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/dcstaleness/

14. http://www.fillthathole.org.uk/hazards/map

15. http://ccfa.coop/about-ccfa/foodshed-map

16. http://bit.ly/ORssR1

17. http://bit.ly/MW5zvQ

19. http://bit.ly/2SyCS

20. www.fallenfruit.org
grow

21. http://bit.ly/OMQ4Ge

22. http://bit.ly/PKp6KF

23. http://bit.ly/qbkGnl

24. http://bit.ly/1S3wHe

25. http://bit.ly/T59AgB

27. http://growit.umd.edu/

28. http://twittermap.appspot.com
/

29. http://bit.ly/QnjPgr

32. http://www.foodsprout.com/

34. http://1.usa.gov/aXOtTN
http://www.usda.gov/maps/maps/kyfcompassmap.htm

35. http://1.usa.gov/NWA8P2

36. http://1.usa.gov/PpCcfO

37. http://bit.ly/T5aXMh

38. Online Mapping Tools
• Google Maps & Google Earth
• Bing Maps - http://www.bing.com/
• GeoCommons - http://geocommons.com/
• ArcGIS Online - http://bit.ly/v93NVW
• Google Fusion Tables - (http://bit.ly/NXIS7F & http://bit.ly/MDdOsr)
• CrowdMap - https://crowdmap.com/
• Fulcrum (smartphone app) - http://fulcrumapp.com/
• MapBox - http://mapbox.com/
• CartoDB - http://cartodb.com/

39. References
DiBiase, D.W., 2007, Is GIS a Wampter? Transactions in GIS, 11(1): 1-8.
Egenhofer, M.J. and Mark, D.M., 1995, Naïve geography, in, Frank, A.U. and Kuhn, W. (eds),
Spatial information theory: A theoretical basis for GIS. Lecture notes in computer sciences,
Springer-Verlag, 988: 1-115.
Goodchild, M.F., 2007, Citizens as sensors: The world of volunteered geography. GeoJournal,
69(4), 211-221.
Hinchcliffe, D., (2007), Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 2: Mass customization, mashups,
and recombinant Web apps. ZDNET: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=81
Jankowski, P., 2009, Towards particpatory geographic information systems for community-
based environmental decision making. Journal of Environmental Mangement, 90: 1966-1971.
Sui, D., 2008, The wikification of GIS and its consequences: Or Angelina Jolie’s new tatto and
the future of GIS. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 32: 1-5.
Turner, A., 2006, Introduction to neogeography. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media Short Cuts,
54p.