Haruka Yasuda
Haruka Yasuda is an Education and Community Engagement Specialist at Eukarya Inc., the company developing Re:Earth, an open-source WebGIS platform. She designs and facilitates workshops that bridge geospatial technology with civic participation, including projects for peace education, disaster preparedness mapping with elementary students, and community-driven town planning with high school students. She also leads Japanese localization efforts for Re:Earth Visualizer and develops educational materials for non-expert GIS users.
Sessions
Global demand for GIS is rising, but countries adopt 3D city models at different stages. This talk explores Japan’s Project PLATEAU in its mature phase and shares how open Web GIS platforms help initiate small-scale GIS projects abroad—highlighting disaster resilience initiatives in Peru.
In Nagaoka, Japan, 23 citizens aged 11–70+ with no GIS experience mapped the 1945 air raid using Re:Earth, an open-source WebGIS platform. This talk explores how no-code CMS architecture enabled real-time "input-to-visualization" workflows, transforming community members into active contributors to geospatial heritage preservation.