The Beacon of Hope-University of New Orleans Community Recovery Project (BUCRP) was borne to organize, support and document the creation of a Beacon GIS that allows flexibility in data collection, maintenance, mapping and analysis across multiple platforms using a variety of public and private data sources.
An important aspect of this is the ability for residents and other community based organizations to learn how to create and maintain the data with, or without, direct assistance from Beacon staff. There will be additional online documents to support the training and site maintenance.
The BUCRP follows many of the ‘public participation GIS’ (PPGIS) standards:
*Provide access to data and basic GIS functions via a GIS interface to a broad and diverse array of community users.
*Users can find existing public information, owner, or building violations. This will allow the community to have ready and ‘one spot’ access to recovery data.
*Will provide limited data availability at local scale, identifies privacy issues, overcomes limited understanding, provides analysis at one scale.
*Compares neighborhood scale data to city scale data.
*Community users can incorporate their own information (local knowledge, information, data) via the GIS interface on the WWW as part of an ‘open database.’
*Allows a 'master user' - the community planner or data manager- to change the GIS database via the WWW. Customizes site functionality and allows users to not have to purchase or use GIS software.
5.15.2009
University of New Orleans news story! Check out the story on the UNO site or our own 'News' section
5.6.2009
'Maps' section added to the website which contains a selection of the maps that BUCRP has produced thus far!
5.4.2009
There is also a story in the 'News' section about Cornell students helping BUCRP with the recovery.
4.1.2009
New pictures added to the pictures section.
3.19.2009
Students from Cornell University are visiting to help complete residential surveys in the Lakeview neigborhood.Thanks so much for all the help! Visit the 'News' section to learn more.
2.9.2009
Training has started for a new group of Limitless Vistas (see photos and news page) and BOH was recently featured in the Times-Picayune! (news)
1.15.2009
Undergraduates from Cornell University stopped in to look at some of the progress BURCP has made in the Gentilly neighborhood and learned the importance of community GIS in the recovery process.
BUCRP | Beacon of Hope/University of New Orleans Community Recovery Project copyright 2009.
web design courtesy: Brian James Baldwin and www.NewOrleansGIS.com
