I have copied this blog over to urbanhealthgis.blogspot.com and will be posting there until further notice.
The main reason is that I want to edit the template and add scripts.
I have copied this blog over to urbanhealthgis.blogspot.com and will be posting there until further notice.
The main reason is that I want to edit the template and add scripts.
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The GPS in Health Research Network (GPS-HRN) is an international network of academics and health researchers interested in GPS technology.
The new website is now live www.gps-hrn.org
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Here are some websites related to the built environment and schools
Travel to School
Feet First – helping NZ primary schools promote walking.
Safe Routes to School – a US network to advance the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) movement in the United States. SRTS can provide a variety of important benefits to children and their communities, including increasing physical activity, reducing traffic congestion, improving air quality, and enhancing neighborhood safety.
Learning about the Built Environment in Schools
Engaging Places – a built environment education project looking at the supply and demand of built environment education in UK schools.
UNSW Built Environment – schools and community engagement
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But have been too busy calculating access to gaming machine venues across NZ to pretty it up. The gambling access calculations have not been without problems. Will post on problems and solutions when I finish calculating…
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I recently gave a talk about community mapping at a Living Streets Aotearoa meeting. This post contains the examples of community mapping that I mentioned in the talk. All these examples all fall within my general area of research, i.e. social health and wellbeing, and almost all of these examples use google maps.
Note: By “community mapping” I mean maps made by the community. There are other things it might possible be called or related to: neogeography, participatory mapping, volunteered geographic information, collaborative mapping etc. I didn’t have time to figure out the appropriate name.
Example 1: Mapping the location of fruit and urban edibles
Example 2: Bicycle routes
Example 3: Walkability & Cycleability audits
Example 4 – Mapping perceptions of the environment
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The International Journal of Conservation (Oryx) has a good list of free and open source research tools.
Zotero is my favourite.
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The research design and methods paper for the URBAN (Understanding the Relationship Between physical Activity and Neighbourhood) study has been published in BMC Public Health. This is the project where I calculated walkability for neighbourhoods and use this to select neighbourhoods with high and low walkability for the study.
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The focus of the conference is Maori GIS projects and GIS related projects relevant to Maori aspirations. It is being held in Christchurch from 13-15 May 2009.
EOI for presenters close 15 April.
http://www.ngaitahu.iwi.nz/Events/2009/GIS-Maori-Conference/
The handy guide to Publishing in Geography by RGS-IBG and Wiley-Blackwell.
Via Very Spatial.
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