Mapping Resources from Mike Ziser & Photos from Ryan Galt

After the community mapping workshop (see yesterday's blog post!), UCD English professor and Bioregionalism guy Mike Ziser compiled this info for folks in the Blue Mountain area interested in community mapping.

Here are some mapping resources for folks up in Calaveras.

CERES (California Environmental Resources Evaluation System) map of Calaveras County: http://www.ceres.ca.gov/geo_area/counties/Calaveras/. A great resource with different data sets and layers than the ICE maps (below), including historical landmarks, genealogical data, and other cultural information.

UC Davis Information Center for the Environment (ICE) maps: http://icemaps.des.ucdavis.edu/icemaps2/ICEMapInit.html. This is a public-access GIS map of California that can show about 30+ layers (land ownership, vegetation, bureaucratic jurisdictions, etc.). To use, select "Zoom In", click on Calaveras county, then click "Select Layers" to change the view.

I'm sure many already know about the Calaveras County GIS maps, but here is the site to post on the blog: http://www.co.calaveras.ca.us/departments/gisproj.asp.

Lastly, I want to encourage local citizens to share their knowledge of their place through the wikipedia pages on West Point and Calaveras County as a whole. Right now those pages have fairly general information, but it would be neat to see the actual residents take over the definition for themselves.... That is what Wikipedia is for, after all. To see what a robust regional wiki is like, they might take a look at our own Davis Wiki, nationally known for its deep coverage of a relatively small local area.

And Ryan Galt sent these photos of folks generating and presenting ideas at the workshop along with a group photo of everyone who came. Check it out!