While Indigenous fire burning practices have come to the forefront of discussion, we caught up with 2019 IMW Fire Scar Mapping trainers Dion Fleming and James Keating to discuss what tools can help us document these practices.

The small town of Pine Creek has been empowering their Indigenous community members through the use of digital tools in tourism.

Located on Gunditjmara Country within the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, ancient eel traps that were engineered by Indigenous Australians thousands of years ago have recently been gaining national attention.

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GIS student and volunteer Amy Kempton shares her #WhyIMap story and her volunteering experience at the Indigenous Mapping Workshop.

GIS Analyst Merindah Bairnsfather-Scott shares her #WhyIMap story as the first of a five part series leading up to the Indigenous Mapping Workshop.

Willowra Community received a scholarship at the 2019 Indigenous Mapping Workshop. Petronella Vaarzon-Morel spoke with us about their mapping project.

The Kullilli Bulloo River Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC was one of three organisations to receive a scholarship at the Indigenous Mapping Workshop (IMW).

This year, Winyama’s GIS analyst Merindah Bairnsfather-Scott attended FOSS4G representing both Winyama and the Indigenous Mapping Workshop.

Gnarla Boodja Mili Mili uses an old archival map to show the original swamplands overlaid with  Google Maps that reveal 21st century streets and built infrastructure. It shows users intrinsic Aboriginal knowledge in a modern digital setting and provides a detailed, pre-colonial Aboriginal place naming map of Whadjuk country. 

The Winyama team takes away the 2019 People and Community Award at the Western Australia Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA) for their work on the Indigenous Mapping Workshop Australia.

Winyama has received a $70,000 grant for its community event, the Indigenous Mapping Workshop Australia.

Over 100 participants met in Perth last week on 16th, 17th and 18th July to participate in the 2nd annual Indigenous Mapping Workshop Australia. The workshop, organised by Winyama, provided free geospatial training on Google, Fulcrum, Esri, Mapbox and QGIS to attendees.

Following a successful pilot year in 2018, Winyama is pleased to be named the official partner of the Indigenous Mapping Workshop (IMW) in Australia.

Listen to this episode of the podcast Location Matters where Winyama’s managing director, Andrew Dowding, discusses the connection between GIS and Aboriginal communities and the importance of digitally documenting Indigenous knowledge through maps.