In working towards our goal of supporting a mapping option to connect communities with their belongings and data, the first stage of these features has been added to the registration process for community accounts.
During the community account creation process, you can search the Native Land Digital database or upload a shapefile to identify your community boundaries:
- Native Land Digital is an Indigenous-led mapping tool that maps Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages around the world.
- A shapefile is a vector data file format commonly used for geospatial analysis. You can create shapefiles on third-party websites like ArcGIS and QGIS.
We are using the term “community boundary” to represent the spatial areas which the community has relationships with and/or responsibilities for. This could represent legal territorial boundaries or traditional areas of interest — areas where you would be interested in being notified about Projects.
Note: We acknowledge that the interests of different communities may overlap and at times the representation of community boundaries may be a source of tension.
