A climate and disaster risk mapping
toolkit for local communities
This document is a guide on the application of
QGIS in community mapping. It aims to help
communities understand the risks, vulnerabilities
and their location in their communities. Communities
can use it to collect, edit, store and display data
from their communities.
Created by: Siu I Fanga Pouvalu.
This tool-kit aims to enable local people to:
• Be able to identify and understand the risks and vulnerabilities that their communities are suffering
from.
• Have the skills and knowledge to collect data of their own environment and create a geodatabase of
their resources to be kept in their communities.
• Create hand drawn maps of all assets and infrastructures, areas at risk, risks and vulnerabilities in
their own communities.
• Transfer collected data onto a desktop and use the Quantum GIS (QGIS) software to highlight issues
that their community is facing.
• Visually understand the risks they are facing and keep this knowledge within their communities.
• Use the maps and collected data to present it to their local governments, NGO’s or donor bodies to
seek assistance.
Who can use this tool-kit?
This resource aims to support the Pacific people that are at the fore-front of climate change raise
awareness and understand the wider implications of climate variation. It is designed to be used by
community groups, students, academics, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), government,
private enterprises or donor bodies. Although there is a focus on disaster risk, the technical skills can
be applied to business, health, agriculture, livestock, sports & recreation, education, culture, music,
myths, legends or any field related to the well-being of the Pacific people.
How to use this tool-kit?
• Before starting with this tool-kit you should know that this tool-kit works like a system. This means
that there are inputs, processes and outputs. Inputs include: this guide, the software, images, you
and the data that you are going to collect. The processes are: your learning, collecting data and
creating maps. The output that you will create at the end is a geodatabase containing information of
your community resources, risk and vulnerability maps and an action plan.
• You will need to install some software that is provided as part of this tool-kit. For example, in order
for you to be able to create some maps you will need to make sure that the QGIS software is set up
on your computer.
• Anyone with the passion to learn new things and accept a challenge can use this tool-kit. Whether
you have used a computer or not, you can still use this tool-kit to create a simple map for your community.
• This document is designed to be a guide using entirely free open source software. For new users,
you will need to be familiar with your computer/laptop to reduce the level of difficulty. You are also
advised to practice and experiment with the software and stay positive at all time. GIS is a very
interesting and fascinating technology just like iPhones and tablet computers, you will master it
once you have developed an interest!
This tool-kit is divided into 4 parts:
Part 1 – Beginners: Chapter 1 and 2 are for users that are not familiar with computers.
Part 2 – Supporting software: Chapter 3 and 4 are complete tutorials on installing the software.
Part 3 – Getting started: Chapter 5 – 18 introduces the user to geospatial data, collecting and editing
data and mapping. Chapter 19 gives the user and the community the opportunity to use the collected
data and maps to create an action plan.
Part 4 – Chapter 19 and 20: For users that have access to Internet to download and update software. It is
also for users that need georeferenced images of their areas of interest. These two chapters rely entirely
on internet connection. Chapter 19 & 20 are designed to teach you how to download and install Google
Earth and georeference images of your area of interest. So after Chapter 9, you should complete Chapter
19 & 20 before continuing onto Chapter 10 and the rest of the chapters. More information and tutorials
on QGIS can be found on this link http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/index.html.
This tool-kit consists of; this Guide, video tutorials, Apache Open Office, VideoLAN (VLC) media player,
QGIS 2.8. desktop software, georeferenced Google Earth images of individual communities and
shapefiles.
• The georeferenced images and shapefiles of the participating communities in the EU GCCA project
are however only made available to these individual communities. For tutorials, georeferenced
images, shapefiles and data of Cicia Island are also included as part of this tool-kit.
Who should be involved?
• In a community setting, it is important to identify members of the community that are capable and
willing to carry out the required tasks. Below are simple steps in finding out who should be involved.
• Establish a Community Mapping Team to be led by chief, village leader or village officer.
• Identify and approach members of the community whether they are interested in being part of this
team. Members should include men, women and youth.
• Identify at least 2 people to be the Community GIS Officers that will be carrying out most of the
mapping in QGIS.
• The rest of the team will assist in collecting and verifying data.
• The Community Mapping Team will be responsible in training members of their community on how
to create simple maps.
• The community mapping team will work together to create the database, maps and an action plan
that can be presented to government officials, NGO’s, donor bodies etc.
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