AAG Abstract [60964] Confirmation for Kevin Flaherty: 2015 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois

Dear Kevin Flaherty, Congratulations on a successful submission of your abstract to the 2015 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Please remember that the AAG accepts all submissions, and that you will be expected to present. Your Program Identification Number (PIN) is: 90028566. This email should serve as your confirmation of abstract acceptance. Your abstract details are as follows: Title: Assessing Public Use of Spatial Data: A Graduate's Experience in Long Beach CA. Keywords: PGIS, GIS, Critical GIS, Surveys, CBO, Comunity Based Organizations Type: Paper Abstract: This is a presentation of Master's Research completed in May of 2014.  The research focuses on Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PGIS) or focuses on how community based organizations (CBOs) use geographic information.  The City of Long Beach provided a perfect landscape to study Participatory GIS because it has a large population and history of community development.  This research involved a mixed methodology: conceptualization, interviews and surveys.  The interviews covered five distinct subject areas to show that connected organizations are more likely to use maps and geographic information.  The research also employed a 29 question survey.  The results of the survey described a process of organization where predicating map usage is tightly linked to a community's level of development and the type of organization under study.  Finally, this research proposes that new research qualitatively trace usage using a broad population. Authors: Topics: Urban Geography Geographic Information Science and Systems Cultural and Political Ecology A/V Equipment: LCD Projector, VGA connection   I understand what equipment is provided in each paper session room and that I am responsible for bringing any equipment that I need and that is not provided, such as my laptop, a Mac to VGA connection, or a laser pointer. Notes: All abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings and online. Submission of an abstract implies permission to publish.