Takla Nation’s way of Creating Base Maps for Collecting Information Out on the Land

Mitch McFarlane, Takla Eirst Nation

Takla Nation's way of Creating Base Maps for Collecting Information Out on the Land

With the growth of activities and staff in the Lands Department of the Takla Nation, GIS data management has been expanding at a rapid rate. Field data collection is an important part of the spatial data management.

In combination of the existing Open Source tools we have been using to manage our information, we are using an application called “Geopaparazzi” for field work.

I will be illustrating the steps to use this customization application from create of base-maps, vector overlays to data collection and integration.

Takla Nation’s way of Creating Base Maps for Collecting Information Out on the Land