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Participatory GIS — a people's GIS?

Christine E. Dunn

Geography Department, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK, c.e.dunn{at}durham.ac.uk

Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of applications of GIS which grant legitimacy to indigenous geographical knowledge as well as to `official' spatial data. By incorporating various forms of community participation these newer framings of Geographical Information Systems as `Participatory GIS' (PGIS) offer a response to the critiques of GIS which were prevalent in the 1990s. This paper reviews PGIS in the context of the `democratization of GIS'. It explores aspects of the control and ownership of geographical information, representations of local and indigenous knowledge, scale and scaling up, web-based approaches and some potential future technical and academic directions.

Key Words: GIS • participatory GIS • public participation.

Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 31, No. 5, 616-637 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0309132507081493
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