Marine Planning Partnership of the North Pacific Coast

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Marine Planning Partnership of the North Pacific Coast

The Marine Planning Partnership for the North Pacific Coast (MaPP) is a collaborative planning process for coastal and marine areas in four sub-regions of B.C.(Haida Gwaii, North Coast, Central Coast and North Vancouver Island). MaPP is a partnership between the Province of British Columbia and 20 member First Nations (as represented by the Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative, the North Coast-Skeena First Nations Stewardship Society and the Nanwakolas Council). SeaSketch is assisting MaPP by enabling on-line access to MaPPs' extensive spatial data library and by creating analytical tools to support MaPPs' work.

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Using SeaSketch in Data Poor Environments

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Using SeaSketch in Data Poor Environments

Everybody wants to have the best possible information when undertaking a planning project. But what happens when you are working in an environment where data is poor or perhaps non-existent? SeaSketch can be used to collect, validate and evaluate new geospatial information for planning purposes. SeaSketch has no minimum data requirements. That is, you can use SeaSketch with limited or no data to simply design plans, share them with others and discuss their relative merits. Of course, if you are to understand some of the important consequences of any given plan - say, the conservation benefits or the economic costs - then you will need some spatial data that can be used to analyze plans.

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SeaSketch user management system updated

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SeaSketch user management system updated

Yesterday we launched version 1.7 of SeaSketch. It's by far our biggest update since SeaSketch's launch in October. The headline feature of this update is of course the Survey Tools, but current administrators of SeaSketch projects will notice that there have been substantial changes made to the Users and Groups tab of the project dashboard. Yesterday we launched version 1.7 of SeaSketch. It's by far our biggest update since SeaSketch's launch in October. The headline feature of this update is of course the Survey Tools, but current administrators of SeaSketch projects will notice that there have been substantial changes made to the Users and Groups tab of the project dashboard. This tab enables administrators to invite users to their project and assign those users to groups that control access to project forums and private datasets.

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Space Monkey

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Space Monkey

Have you used Survey Monkey to create online surveys? Well, SeaSketch is about to have similar capabilities so that you can collect spatial information and generate new datasets. How often have you been a part of a planning process where somebody says, "We don't have data for that." Sometimes, there are experts or locals with knowledge about the environment or human activities but this information is not yet summarized or georeferenced. So, traditionally, we employ a bunch of GIS technicians to interview people, collect this information and then produce a bunch of spatial data layers.

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