📄️ Why GIS is different
Why coordinates, geometry, overlays, imagery, metadata and spatial inference create distinctive Māori data-sovereignty issues in GIS.
📄️ Rangatiratanga and Māori data
What rangatiratanga and Māori Data Sovereignty mean for GIS without reducing Māori authority to server ownership or Western intellectual-property concepts.
📄️ Kaitiakitanga and responsibility
Practical ways to keep relationships, whakapapa, continuity and care visible when Māori spatial information is collected, stored, used, shared and carried forward.
📄️ Whakapapa of data
Practical guidance for preserving provenance, source relationships, authority, lineage and context in Māori GIS data.
📄️ Who decides what?
A practical Māori GIS guide to keeping decision roles, relationships, kaupapa and technical access clear without treating a database role as cultural authority.
📄️ What belongs in GIS?
A practical guide to deciding what Māori knowledge and place information is useful to represent in GIS, and what may be better kept in another form.
📄️ Terminology
Plain-English definitions of Māori Data Sovereignty, governance, residency, jurisdiction, custody, CARE, FAIR, OCAP, metadata sovereignty and GIS terms.