GeoMap GeoMap Department of Geography University of Califonia Berkeley, California Geomap was created in 1996 at the University of California by Professor Bernard Nietschmann and a small group of young cartographers to provide mapmaking training and skills to indigenous peoples and local communities.
Maps are power.
Either you will map or you will be mapped. If you are mapped by those who desire to own or control your land and resources, their map will display their justifications for their claims, not yours. Cartographers routinely worked for the governments and corporations of the invaders and occupiers. More powerful and accurate than almost anything that exists in most central governments in most capital cities of the world, this new technology can be carried in a backpack, and with solar panels, used anywhere. GeoMap began working with the Miskito people in their autonomous region of noth-eastern Nicaragua to help them map their traditional sea and coral reef territories.