The Mapping Centre
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Mission
Social Enterprise
To provide a service for collection, storage, and dissemination of environmental information through digital and hardcopy maps in order to guide better decision making for environmental use and stewardship.
The Mapping Centre is a  social enterprise of Project Watershed
Mapping & Inventory
Training
Equipment Rental
maps@projectwatershed.bc.ca
tel:(250) 703-2871
fax:(250) 703-2872
cel:(250) 792-2873
A social enterprise is a business operated by a non-profit
creating cost effective, environmentally friendly work.
profits are used for a social purpose, rather than maximizing profits to shareholders
Digital 
pdf, jpeg, giff, png
Interactive Online
We can create maps that are...
Traditional Land Uses
Cultural Heritage Sites 
Traditional Place Names
Environmental and Natural Resources
Territory Boundaries
Fish Habitat
Land Use & Land Use Policy
This includes but is not limited to …
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Geographical Information System (GIS)
Geographical Positioning System (GPS)
Sensitive Habitat Inventory & Mapping (SHIM) surveys
Coastal Shoreline Habitat Inventory & Mapping (CSHIM) surveys 
Streamkeeper Courses 
Wetlandkeeper Courses 
Wetland Inventory & Mapping 
Baseline Conservation Covenant Management Plan Mapping
Liquid Waste/ Watershed Management Plans
Trimble Pathfinder® GPS Mapping (+/-5.0 meter accuracy under canopy, <1 m in open areas)
Hand-held Garmin recreational grade GPS (+/-10m accuracy, < 1 m in open areas)
LCD Projector and Screen
"we put your ideas on the map"
Hard Copy
select features you want to see
zoom in and out
print your map
Add information
K’omoks Land Use History
A map for Comox Museum
showing traditional land use using traditional 
place names.
Fish in the Ditch Map Book
This map book is now being used to guide city maintenance around urban fish habitat.
Gap Analysis Project
Conservation Strategy
We worked with local governments to identify gaps between existing environmental features and current land use policies.
We supply the technical expertise for the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy, a strategy to protect the environment and its key features. At present all local governments have committed to protecting the Priority Ecological Areas that are on the map.
Larger Development Map
We compiled a map that outlines all large developments (>0.2 ha) and color coded them to show where they are in the development process.
http://204.244.79.12/mapguide2009/Project_Watershed/PW_frameset.php
try it out yourself
http://maps.projectwatershed.bc.ca
Gap Example - 
Industrial Zoning on top of Aquatic Habitat
where you can ...
to find  out more...
Your Ideas
Why map?
Show changes over time
Present information
Store/Archive information
Guide decision making
Maps can...
Show how things connect spacially
and we can help you build ones that work best for
through
Maps are tools
you
Want to be more involved in the process
we offer
&
Got an idea but don't know where to start?
Legend
We also do consultations
to help focus ideas

target your audience

create workplans

strategize for maximum impact
Scale = 1:your imagination
Data Sources: Your information, Newly collected information, Governmental information, other
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Lost Sensitive Ecosystems
These maps are used to illistrate the amount and distribution of ecosystem losses
Get you safely from place to place
Comox Valley cycling Map
We worked with the Broken Spoke and volunteers to identify cycling friendy areas. This is the first map of its kind in the Comox Valley.