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memory though GIS
Geographical Information Systems
to remember things, facts & events
we should never forget.
Welcome to a website where the aim is to demonstrate how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can preserve historical events, keeping them alive in our collective memory. Our goal is to remember, reconstruct, and raise awareness about these events, ensuring that they remain relevant and understood in the present and future days.
We believe that understanding the past is crucial for comprehending the present and shaping the future. By harnessing the power of technology and digital tools, we strive to tell real stories that cover a diverse range of topics. It can also raise awareness about analogycal systems that are still interesting research data but we would think of translating it into GIS more than just geography.
This website serves as a modern intersection where journalism, communication, storytelling, current affairs, history, and geography converge. Join us on this journey as we explore the intersection of past and present through the lens of GIS.
If we know the geographical context of these events, we can begin to unravel the reasons behind them.
To remember and to be remembered.
1) Visualizing Chile: A website with a map visualizing the disappeared detainees during the dictatorship in Chile.
El total de casos es 3.216, 2.330 georreferenciados, 825 sin georreferenciación y 61 en el extranjero.
SOSAFE is a neighborhood safety application that connects neighbors and local services available in Chile.
They argue that they have been able to demonstrate that the more collaboration and connection between the parties, the better. They propose to work beyond the technical space, but also to make a cultural change, changing the mentality and the way of solving things with the help of a tool that allows to agree, solve conflicts and prevent events that we would not like to have to remember.
2) SO SAFE
This article analyzes the relationship between geographic space and memory in the testimonies of political prisoners, that relate the experience of detention in the prison camp of Dawson.
How could we digitalize or use GIS to analyze this researched data?
To read the complete article, click the blue rectangle.
3) Geographical memory in the chilean testimony: Dawson Island.
4) VR Volver a Casa Documentary Project: Going back home.
How people remember their home? What happens with a space when you leave it for a time? Could this project inform public policies?
How this audiovisual projects could be useful in terms of the feedback and how space changes through the time that inmates are inside the prison?
5) Reconstruction of the surface affected by the megafire that occurred 5 years ago in the Maule Region in Chile.
6) Antivenom manufacturers and public health officials often lack statistical data on the number and type of snakebites, leading to difficulty in estimating antivenom product supply. The data collected through GIS in this article could be helpful in terms of defining public policies and incentives for pharmaceuticals so they get the number about how many people are diying because of snakes.
GIS tools to develop a model that could predict the best locations for oyster bed reestablishment that would provide maximum likely water filtration benefits.
Re-establishing oyster beds to maximize their ecological benefits.
¿Do we want to forget oysters - their taste for ever? It is interesting to think about GIS as a tool to perpetuate species and avoiding extintion. It would be great to have data about how this project continues, as the article was written in 2019. Did it succeed?
7) Oysters in danger
¿Did you find a story we should share?
¿Did you find a story we should share?
We are currently showcasing seven different cases, but we are constantly seeking new submissions to expand our collection.
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