In September Rural GIS was contracted by the Scottish Community Foundation to assist in a community consultation exercise to explore ideas for utilising a community fund being built up from the Gordonbush Wind Farm development. More detail is provided on the relevant page on the main website. The PPGIS approach utilised was very simple and was based on a similar exercise undertaken by Iain Turnbull for the Kyle Development Group as part of their Kyle Conversation in the spring of 2011. Basically individuals were encouraged to look at GIS maps of their locality on a big screen and to mark on ideas and issues that they considered to be of interest or concern. Attributes were attached to the point data which described the issue/opportunity and broadly categorised it for later analysis. While very simple from a GIS perspective I have found that this approach helps people to visualise how things might relate to each other and some ideas feed off others, etc. I hope to build on this technique with some further research and reading on the subject of PPGIS. If anyone reads this and has suggestions or tools that could beused for this please send me an email at [email protected] and I will get back to you.
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