Surveying the extent of PPGIS practice in the United States

Sawicki, David S.; Peterman, David Randall

doi:10.1201/9780203469484.ch2

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“…However, fewer local governments provide GIS data online-the proportion increased from 17.2 percent to 33.3 percent during the same period. Community-based organizations also have increasingly adopted GIS to strengthen their informational base and to enhance their advocacy stance with public agencies [8].…”

Section: Gis In E-governmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

GIS : Advancement on Spatial Intelligence Applications in Government

Liu¹,

Liu²

2015

TOCSJ

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A number of approaches for integrating GIS and qualitative research have emerged in recent years. Despite significant growth in public participation GIS (PPGIS) literature since the 1990s, little engagement by e-government scholars is evident in the extensive scholarly PPGIS debates. To fill this void, recent trends in PPGIS adoption by local governments are analyzed. Three waves of GIS are identified: desktop GIS, web GIS, and the Geospatial Web 2.0 platform. Such technological advancements have progressively eased GIS accessibility from expert users to ordinary citizens, accompanied by considerable growth in adopting PPGIS for traffic and transit, volunteered geographic information, and customer relationship management. However, limited use of PPGIS for higher levels of participation such as decision making is found. Barriers to PPGIS adoption for decision making seem less technological and more institutional.

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Section: Gis In E-governmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

GIS : Advancement on Spatial Intelligence Applications in Government

Liu¹,

Liu²

2015

TOCSJ

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“…Critics of PGIS suggest that like most community participation projects the effectiveness of PGIS is frustrated by the persistent problems such as time, funding, expertise, continuity and the cultural dynamics of dealing with multiple stakeholders (Weiner and Harris 2003;Sawicki and Peterman 2002). It also stands to reason that since the form of PGIS will vary from community to community (Elwood 2008;Rambaldi et al 2006) it could take on a variety of forms and methods.…”

Section: The Evolution Of Geographical Information Systemsmentioning

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A participatory web map service: the case of Theewaterskloof Dam

Musungu¹,

Jacobs²

2015

SA J of Geomatics

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“…In navigating these political economies of knowledge within urban politics, community organizations and other institutions make choices about what knowledge to present and how, with the hope of influencing decisions or bolstering the perceived legitimacy of their claims. In the past ten years, the knowledge politics of urban planning and problem solving have been influenced by growing adoption and use of GIS and digital spatial data by a multitude of new users, especially community organizations (Goodchild 2000;Sui 2000;Crampton 2001;Elwood 2002a;Sawicki and Peterman 2002).…”

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“…State and private funders' growing emphasis on technical expertise, use of ''best practices,'' and demonstrable achievement of measurable outcomes has led to what some characterize as a professionalization of the field (Morison 2000;Mitchell 2001). A growing number of community organizations use digital spatial technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) to carry out statistical and spatial data analysis and mapping for program planning and implementation, fundraising, and monitoring neighborhood change (Sieber 2000;Sawicki and Peterman 2002;Elwood and Leitner 2003).…”

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Beyond Cooptation or Resistance: Urban Spatial Politics, Community Organizations, and GIS-Based Spatial Narratives

Elwood

2006

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

182

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The roles, relationships, and strategies of state and civil society institutions in urban planning, problem solving, and service delivery are in flux. In trying to understand how these changes affect community organizations, grassroots groups, and local-level institutions of civil society, existing research has tended to conceptualize these roles through a series of oppositional dialectics, such as cooptation or resistance. This article shows instead that community organizations shift their technological, institutional, and spatial approaches to urban planning and problem solving in creative and multifaceted ways. They produce a variety of spatial narratives to advance their agendas by strategically enacting multiple roles vis-à-vis a diverse set of actors and institutions. Information technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) can play a central role in this approach. Community organizations apply their own interpretive frameworks to GIS-based maps and images to produce spatial narratives of local needs, conditions, and assets that may be adapted to the diverse roles and relationships they negotiate in urban spatial politics. These arguments are developed from ethnographic research carried out with two inner-city Chicago community organizations pursuing a range of neighborhood improvement activities.

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Surveying the extent of PPGIS practice in the United States

Cited by 32 publications

References 1 publication

GIS : Advancement on Spatial Intelligence Applications in Government

GIS : Advancement on Spatial Intelligence Applications in Government

A participatory web map service: the case of Theewaterskloof Dam

Beyond Cooptation or Resistance: Urban Spatial Politics, Community Organizations, and GIS-Based Spatial Narratives

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