TY - CHAP
T1 - Extending Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) with Geospatial Software as a Service: Participatory Asset Mapping Infrastructures for Urban Health
AU - Kolak, Marynia
AU - Steptoe, Michael
AU - Manprisio, Holly
AU - Azu-Popow, Lisa
AU - Hinchy, Megan
AU - Malana, Geraldine
AU - Maciejewski, Ross
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Community asset mapping is an essential step in public health practice for identifying community strengths, needs, and urban health intervention strategies. Community-based Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) could facilitate customized asset mapping to link free and accessible technologies with community needs in a mutually shared, knowledge-producing process. To address this issue, we demonstrate a participatory asset mapping infrastructure developed with a Chicago community using VGI concepts, participatory design principles, and geospatial Software as a Service (SaaS) using a suite of free and/or open tools. Participatory mapping infrastructures using decentralized system architecture can link data and mapping services, transforming siloed datasets to integrated systems managed and shared across multiple organizations. The final asset mapping infrastructure includes a flexible and cloud-based data management system, an interactive web map, and community asset data stream. By allowing for a dynamic, reproducible, adaptive, and participatory asset mapping system, health systems infrastructures can further support community health improvement frameworks by facilitating shared data and decision support implementations across health partners. Such ``community-engaged VGI'' is essential in integrating previously siloed data systems and facilitating means of collaboration with health systems in urban health research and practice.
AB - Community asset mapping is an essential step in public health practice for identifying community strengths, needs, and urban health intervention strategies. Community-based Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) could facilitate customized asset mapping to link free and accessible technologies with community needs in a mutually shared, knowledge-producing process. To address this issue, we demonstrate a participatory asset mapping infrastructure developed with a Chicago community using VGI concepts, participatory design principles, and geospatial Software as a Service (SaaS) using a suite of free and/or open tools. Participatory mapping infrastructures using decentralized system architecture can link data and mapping services, transforming siloed datasets to integrated systems managed and shared across multiple organizations. The final asset mapping infrastructure includes a flexible and cloud-based data management system, an interactive web map, and community asset data stream. By allowing for a dynamic, reproducible, adaptive, and participatory asset mapping system, health systems infrastructures can further support community health improvement frameworks by facilitating shared data and decision support implementations across health partners. Such ``community-engaged VGI'' is essential in integrating previously siloed data systems and facilitating means of collaboration with health systems in urban health research and practice.
KW - Community asset mapping
KW - Geospatial Software as a Service (GeoSaaS)
KW - Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
KW - Participatory design
KW - Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-19573-1_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-19573-1_11
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783030195724
T3 - Global Perspectives on Health Geography
SP - 209
EP - 230
BT - Geospatial Technologies for Urban Health
A2 - Lu, Yongmei
A2 - Delmelle, Eric
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
ER -