Public Participation in Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) can help solve many problems in a community. Parking at Oregon State University is a problem for many members of the community to include students, staff and those who live and work near the university. We at SPEW (Scott, Paris, Elina, and Wiley) have created this website to collect resources, show how GIS can help with the parking problem, provide alternatives to driving and show what other communities are doing about similar problems.

GEO 599 Public Participation in GIS

 

OSU Student Parking

 

This website is a student project employed as a medium to explore how public participation in GIS can tap into local knowledge to help reduce parking issues at Oregon State University. We also hope to provide an unmonitored forum in which people can contribute their concerns and solutions to parking and commuting in Corvallis, Oregon. Community members concerned with parking on OSU may include:
- Those who need parking: Students, Faculty/Staff, Visitors/Tailgaters, Services
- Those not OSU connected, but affected: individual neighbors, neighborhood associations, peripheral businesses, Neighborhood Traffic and Parking Task Force
- Those who control and regulate parking: OSU TAPS, OSU Administration, OSU Athletics, City of Corvallis, County of Benton, State of Oregon
- Those who enforce parking requirements: Oregon State Police, Benton County Sheriff, Corvallis PD.
As of now this website is not scheduled to be maintained after December 2007. However, you are welcome to use the resources on this website and comment as long as the links remain viable.