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| Subject: | RE: GISList: Request: Poverty maps |
| Date: |
06/18/2003 02:05:01 PM |
| From: |
Dimitri Rotow |
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> My name is Hugo Ahlenius, and I am working for UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Together
> with partners we have been working on promoting the use of maps, GIS and
> statistics in fighting poverty more effectively.
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> Part of this is hosting the Poverty Mapping web-site, which you can visit
> at: http://povertymap.net/
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> Our problems is that our collection of examples -- Maps and Graphics is
> not extensive! Do you have a map of somtehing related to poverty that you
> would like to share with the rest of world -- please let me know!
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> Send me an e-mail, perhaps with a link or an attachment, and describe your
> map, and we will put a link to it from the web-site.
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> Thank you!
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> /Hugo Ahlenius
> UNEP/GRID-Arendal
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Hugo,
As they say, "knowledge is power," so I agree with your effort to
communicate the status of poverty through maps. But considering the
importance of the information I was disappointed to see in your web site
that you do not make available for download the actual data behind the maps
(or, if the information is there, I was unable to find it).
Pretty maps are but one step in the transmission of information. In a
modern world where the power of GIS is within reach of any organization and
most individuals, you would do better not to freeze your data (which,
ultimately, tells the real story) within the prison of a single map but
rather make it available for hundreds of thousands or millions of GIS users
to apply within their own work, to create new maps and to integrate what we
know about poverty within the other analyses they do.
I suggest you could improve your site by adding a page of links from which
the data behind each map can be downloaded. It could be as simple as
shapefiles in lat/lon coordinates, or, for country data, simple .csv tables
containing the data that people could link into their own maps.
Cheers,
Dimitri
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