Case description: A group of community activists from a remote area with limited infrastructure,
though with close contacts with a non-governmental agency in a nearby town, would like to contest the
development of an oil palm plantation (600 km2
) within an area they claim as their ancestral land. When
visiting an Internet café located some 40 km from their village, they found out that Google Earth offers
good imagery of the area at stake. The group has the following three different purposes for undertaking
a participatory mapping project and has to assess which mapping tool or combination of mapping tools
is the most effective to meet these.
though with close contacts with a non-governmental agency in a nearby town, would like to contest the
development of an oil palm plantation (600 km2
) within an area they claim as their ancestral land. When
visiting an Internet café located some 40 km from their village, they found out that Google Earth offers
good imagery of the area at stake. The group has the following three different purposes for undertaking
a participatory mapping project and has to assess which mapping tool or combination of mapping tools
is the most effective to meet these.
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