Planning & Training Services
Example Projects
Community-Based Health Research with Maps - By the People, For Healthy Communities |
BC Rural and Remote Health Research Network "A full-day workshop on the use of maps and mapping in community health research" Background: Mapping is an innovative and largely under-utilized tool that community researchers can use to explore and examine the unique health challenges facing rural and remote communities while building... |
Highlands Community Green Tourist Map |
District of Highlands Council (Vancouver Island) Over a 12 month period, we assisted a local community mapping steering committee collect information from their community and map it! Design and cartography was done by Charles Burnett and Ken Josephson (UVic Geography). ... |
SELES Training |
Federal and Provincial researchers, university researchers and forestry consultants GeoMemes staff have provided SELES courses several times, with 2008 being the latest. SELES Background |
Asset Mapping Plan for PLAY Victoria |
Partnership in Learning and Advocacy for Young Children (PLAY) Victoria Mapping processes, tools and products can be effectual ways of identifying the strengths, values and assets of a community. Mapping connects us to real places and people and therefore to real possibilities for action and change. Maps tell us where we are and where to go and have inherent power.... |
Marine & Land Use Plan |
Tsawataineuk First Nation (Kingcome Inlet, BC) GeoMemes supported the Tsawataineuk First Nation in a Capacity Building project focused on drafting a Marine and Land Use Plan for the community. GeoMemes provided project management, cultural interview, research and GIS services. We trained a comunity researcher. We assisted TUS/TEK interviewer... |
Implications on Land and Resource Use of Overlapping Land Use Plans |
Winalagalis Treaty Group The system of national, provincial, district and municipal plans and legislature that overlap with WTG lands and waters has the potential to produce unexpected constraints on traditional use, economic development or habitat viability. We call these unexpected effects cumulative effects. Our... |
Port Renfrew Visions Report and Community Visions Project |
Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children We researched, wrote and created maps for a report on the results of a visions survey conducted for the people of Port Renfrew and the Pacheedaht First Nation. Funding came from the Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children. We assisted with data collection process consisting of several targeted... |
Quality of Life Indicator Survey Review |
Greater Victoria United Way The United Way needed an assessment of indicators useful at the municipal level to prioritize action on social and environmental issues. I contrasted normative welfare indicators, life satisfaction indicators and descriptive social indicators including the UN’s HDI, Redefining Progress’ GPI and... |