Spraycan: A PPGIS for capturing imprecise notions of place

Huck, Jonny; Whyatt, Duncan; Coulton, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.09.007

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“…This technique normally involves marking points or shapes on a map (Brown & Fagerholm, ); however, many people struggle to communicate the value of landscapes using such constrained spatial techniques (Carver et al., ; Huck, Whyatt, & Coulton, ). We therefore used the participatory GIS spraycan tool Map‐Me (Huck et al., ), which has been designed to overcome this. The spraycan generates a series of random points within a specified radius of the computer mouse pointer for as long as the mouse button is held down.…”

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“…An online survey was designed using participatory GIS. This technique normally involves marking points or shapes on a map (Brown & Fagerholm, 2015); however, many people struggle to communicate the value of landscapes using such constrained spatial techniques (Carver et al, 2009;Huck, Whyatt, & Coulton, 2014). We therefore used the participatory GIS spraycan tool Map-Me (Huck et al, 2014), which has been designed to overcome this.…”

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Quantifying cultural ecosystem services: Disentangling the effects of management from landscape features

2019

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Cultural ecosystem services are undeniably important, yet are typically neglected in land management decisions due to a suite of intractable challenges: they are highly complex, localised, and inextricably associated with landscape features. However, to incorporate the ecosystem services framework into land management, decision‐makers need the tools to disentangle the effects of land use from other factors. This is a major challenge for ecosystem services research. Forestry is a widespread land use that has considerable potential to deliver a broad range of ecosystem services, although this requires careful management planning. Additionally, modern production forestry is undergoing a period of rapid change in the face of a plethora of challenges, such as climate change and disease. To increase cultural ecosystem services delivery from forests, managers need tools to understand the implications of different management options. In this paper, we directly test how land use affects cultural ecosystem services. We use a new approach that recognises the underlying complexity of cultural ecosystem services but produces easily interpretable results that are locally relevant and directly applicable to land management. By combining participatory geographic information systems (GIS) and a novel site matching technique, we relate cultural values explicitly to land management, while accounting for the influence of landscape features. Applying this new method to a major UK forest site, we conducted a large survey to gather participatory GIS data points. We showed that land management significantly affected cultural ecosystem service values and were able to make a series of practical forest management recommendations. Notably, a greater diversity of tree species would improve cultural value, and open space is important within the forest landscape. This approach is highly flexible and can be applied to any type of landscape. It allows cultural ecosystem services to be fully integrated into land management decisions to formulate the best management strategy to maximise ecosystem service delivery. A plain language summary is available for this article.

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Quantifying cultural ecosystem services: Disentangling the effects of management from landscape features

2019

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“…Eventually, this data may be aggregated from individual level to other spatial and temporal scales. Here, in a methodologically innovative way, Huck et al [74] present a PPGIS platform which allows the collection, storage and analysis of spatial data from the public without reducing these data to geographic primitives. Regardless of whether such approaches are called VGI or user-generated content (UGC) [75] or Geographic Information Observatories [76], these technical and methodological developments allow for a data-driven, and 'theory-informed' approach by introducing a theoretical and technical framework to interactively explore the pulse of a city based on social media [75,77].…”

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Revisiting the Role of Place in Geographic Information Science

Merschdorf

Blaschke

2018

IJGI

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Although place-based investigations into human phenomena have been widely conducted in the social sciences over the last decades, this notion has only recently transgressed into Geographic Information Science (GIScience). Such a place-based GIS comprises research from computational place modeling on one end of the spectrum, to purely theoretical discussions on the other end. Central to all research that is concerned with place-based GIS is the notion of placing the individual at the center of the investigation, in order to assess human-environment relationships. This requires the formalization of place, which poses a number of challenges. The first challenge is unambiguously defining place, to subsequently be able to translate it into binary code, which computers and geographic information systems can handle. This formalization poses the next challenge, due to the inherent vagueness and subjectivity of human data. The last challenge is ensuring the transferability of results, requiring large samples of subjective data. In this paper, we re-examine the meaning of place in GIScience from a 2018 perspective, determine what is special about place, and how place is handled both in GIScience and in neighboring disciplines. We, therefore, adopt the view that space is a purely geographic notion, reflecting the dimensions of height, depth, and width in which all things occur and move, while place reflects the subjective human perception of segments of space based on context and experience. Our main research questions are whether place is or should be a significant (sub)topic in GIScience, whether it can be adequately addressed and handled with established GIScience methods, and, if not, which other disciplines must be considered to sufficiently account for place-based analyses. Our aim is to conflate findings from a vast and dynamic field in an attempt to position place-based GIS within the broader framework of GIScience.

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“…Dado que las personas tienen una relación compleja con el paisaje, capturarlo no es una tarea fácil empleando mapas de características tradicionales [34]. Dada esta complejidad, los datos sociales relativos al tipo y ubicación de los diferentes servicios ecosistémicos percibidos así como la localización de los riesgos percibidos en el paisaje, fue colectada empleando la plataforma libre Map-Me PPGIS [35]; como un medio para colectar información geográfica del público usando una interfase estilo aerógrafo [36]. Que cuando los datos están asociados a complejos fenómenos sociales, esta estrategia de mapeo ofrece la ventaja de generar una serie de puntos en lugar de puntos individuales, de precisión irreal, permitiendo así registrar información de un lugar de manera más flexible, sin reducir la información a un espacio definido [35,36].…”

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Dimensión social del paisaje como herramienta para la gestión de espacios naturales en entornos agrícolas

Sánchez¹,

Vallejos-Romero²,

Hernández-Navarro³

2019

Congreso Ibérico De Agroingeniería

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Resumen: Los ecosistemas de humedal proveen importantes servicios ecosistémicos (SE). Sin embargo, la creciente presión a la que están sometidos ha provocado una continua disminución en su extensión, siendo la intensificación agrícola la principal amenaza, cuyos impactos negativos son consecuencia directa de la acción humana, con efectos directos sobre la misma sociedad, que se hace más perceptible a los peligros, entendiendo los riesgos como el daño futuro que se deriva de decisiones presentes. En consecuencia, la forma en que el paisaje es gobernado puede ser determinante en la capacidad de suministro de SE clave y la estabilidad de los ecosistemas asociados a las actividades productivas. En este contexto problemático, la presente investigación busca analizar la percepción social del riesgo en función de los servicios ecosistémicos valorados por la sociedad, en el paisaje español de Campiñas de la Lampreana y Villafáfila. Se aplicaron entrevistas y grupos focales, en combinación con una estrategia de mapeo participativo, para el entendimiento de la influencia de los cambios en la provisión de servicios ecosistémicos sobre los riesgos percibidos en un paisaje agrícola.Palabras clave: servicios ecosistémicos; percepción del riesgo; humedales.

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Spraycan: A PPGIS for capturing imprecise notions of place

Cited by 63 publications

References 24 publications

Quantifying cultural ecosystem services: Disentangling the effects of management from landscape features

Quantifying cultural ecosystem services: Disentangling the effects of management from landscape features

Revisiting the Role of Place in Geographic Information Science

Dimensión social del paisaje como herramienta para la gestión de espacios naturales en entornos agrícolas

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