https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/ethnographicmapping/
From the website: University of Victoria’s Ethnographic Mapping Lab is designed for GIS and qualitative data analysis supporting research and innovation in projects like traditional land use and occupancy mapping in indigenous communities and providing space for interview transcription, high-speed document scanning, and software supported qualitative analysis.
Here is a presentation outlining the ways in which the lab uses Google My Maps to help tell the stories of Coast Salish communities. Cunsolo Willox et. al argue that “place-based narratives and first-hand observations and experiences of environmental change and climatic variation, shared through oral stories, are not only an important and legitimate source of research but also are methodologically rich and powerful” (Abram, 1996; Briggs, 2005; Burgess, 1999; Chamberlin, 2003; Cruikshank, 2005; Davis, 2004; Dove, 2000; Durie, 2004; Ellen and Harris, 2000; Furgal et al., 2002a, 2002b; Laidler, 2006; Mauro and Hardison, 2000; Raffles, 2002; Robertson et al., 2000; Ross, 2008; Stevenson, 1998, 2005; Watson et al., 2003) (p. 131).
References
Cunsolo, A et. al, Victoria & Word’ Lab, My & Inuit Community Government, Rigolet. (2013). Storytelling in a Digital Age: Digital Storytelling as an Emerging Narrative Method for Preserving and Promoting Indigenous Oral Wisdom.. Qualitative Research. 13. 127-147. 10.1177/1468794112446105.