Urban

Telhados verdes têm sido apontados como uma das possíveis soluções para o combate às mudanças climáticas nas cidades. Isso porque, além de permitirem a captação de água da chuva e a produção de hortaliças no alto dos edifícios, eles também são capazes de gerar microclima, reduzindo a temperatura local e o gasto energético com refrigeração, ...

This summer, a group of students are embarking on a groundbreaking project: mapping tree canopy cover in California. Tree canopies, which provide shade, can offset the heat island effect in cities. The effect is caused by buildings, roads and other human-made infrastructure absorbing and then re-emitting heat. In a warming climate, the heat island effect ...

Learn how to use the City’s Emergency Map to quickly see how neighborhoods, including your own, may be directed to evacuate, shelter in place, or take other protective action during a major emergency. When possible, the City would use the map to also identify evacuation routes, road closures, shelters, or other critical information to guide ...

Wrocław jako drugie (po Warszawie) miasto w Polsce będzie korzystał z tworzonej właśnie mapy koron drzew, która powinna być gotowa jeszcze w tym roku. Mapa powstaje w ramach nowego, europejskiego projektu LIFECOOLCITY. Jak się ją przygotowuje i w jaki sposób przyczyni się do niwelowania zjawiska miejskich wysp ciepła? Realizacja projektu LIFECOOLCITY pomoże w określeniu „zielonych” ...

구미시가 국토지리정보원이 주관하는 고정밀 전자지도 구축 챌린지 사업에 선정됐다. 이 사업은 가상공간에 실물과 똑같은 물체를 만들어 다양한 모의 시험을 통해 교통, 환경, 재난 등을 검증하는 ‘디지털 트윈’을 조기 완성하기 위해 국토부가 추진하는 사업이다. 시는 국비 40억 원 등 80억 원을 들여 2024년까지 항공측량(라이다 영상)을 실시해 3차원의 지형공간정보를 확보하고 지역내 모든 건물과 시설을 3차원으로 형상화하는 등 ...

It’s all over the news: Urban areas tend to become extremely hot these days. To properly cool down our cities, “we need digital twins in the early stages of city planning”, says Stefan Trometer, Managing Director at Virtual City Systems. To Southern Europe for a city trip in the summer is becoming increasingly challenging. As ...

The rising inflation in the past year has caused coffee and espresso prices to double or triple (these days, the common cost for these is well over 2 euros). Despite this, some establishments have said “non” and have maintained affordability. This interactive map shows all of the bars, restaurants and cafes in Paris where you ...

Feeds from surveillance cameras play a key role in tracing and identifying individuals and vehicles during investigations. But locating cameras in a given location after the occurrence of a crime or accident often causes delay in the investigation. Now, the Coimbatore City Police are in the process of cutting down this delay by geotagging all ...

Sur la carte des îlots de chaleur de Montréal de 2019, une tache rouge bordée d’orange apparaît au centre du parc Rutherford, situé sur le flanc du mont Royal. Pourtant, six années auparavant, la zone apparaissait en vert sur la carte produite à partir d’images satellite. C’est qu’entre les deux prises d’images, un terrain sportif ...

금일 제주알마켓 하루방앱은 ‘토지 미래가치 예측 기술’ 관련 특허 등록을 완료했다고 밝혔다. 이번에 특허받은 기술은 GIS(지리 정보 시스템)와 빅데이터 기술을 융복합한 토지의 미래가치 예측기능이 구비된 지도정보서비스시스템의 제어방법이다. 본 특허는 △개별토지의 환경적 및 사회적 가치 평가, △토지의 미래가치 예측 및 산출, △필지별 용도지역 분석, △용도지역 변경 이력 추적, △개발행위 허가 여부 판단, △개별공시지가 변동 추이 파악 ...

Die Stadt Köln möchte mit einem neuen Projekt kühle Orte im Stadtgebiet sichtbar machen und somit Bürger:innen weiter für das Thema ‚Hitze‘ sensibilisieren. Auf der städtischen Internetseite im „Kölner Hitzeportal“ wird eine Stadtkarte freigeschaltet, in denen Kölner:innen „ihre“ Orte eintragen können, die ihnen bei hohen Sommertemperaturen Kühle und Erholung versprechen. Bei diesen kühlen Orten kann ...

Through an intelligent combination of geotagged social media, global location and natural language data, ORNL’s Junchuan Fan and Gautam Thakur developed MapSpace, a publicly available, scalable land-use modeling framework. By providing data characteristics broader and deeper than satellite imagery alone, MapSpace can generate population analytics invaluable for urban planning and disaster response. The researchers’ findings ...

Wo darf mit welcher Parkkarte parkiert werden? Wo ist das Bauen aufgrund von Naturgefahren eingeschränkt? Die Stadt Bern nutzt als Grundlage für ihr Handeln eine Vielzahl von Geodatensätzen. Neu stellt sie diese Daten über das städtische Geoportal www.bern.ch/geoportal auch der Öffentlichkeit zur Verfügung. Die Stadt Bern macht einen weiteren Schritt in Richtung digitale Verwaltung und ...

Una mappa per rendere i luoghi della lettura di Firenze visibili e accessibili, questo è il progetto che il Comune di Firenze attraverso le Biblioteche Comunali Fiorentine sta disegnando. La mappa raccoglierà sia i luoghi della lettura più conosciuti, ma anche quelli più insoliti, in cui la lettura è presente come veicolo di socialità e ...

Muscat Municipality has won an international award for using geographic information systems (GIS) in an effective manner in its Etamid platform. The Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award ceremony took place during a plenary session of the Esri User Conference in San Diego, California, USA on July 10. Etamid is a pioneering project involving numerous ...

Central to the mission of Calvin University is restorative justice; and for years, it has helped inmates get a degree through the Calvin Prison Initiative. Calvin also developed valuable resources, like the “Returning Citizens Map,” an interactive web page that helps people chart a new path forward after they serve their time. In 2018, a ...

Die Web-Anwendung wartet jetzt mit einer Reihe neuer Funktionen auf und bietet noch mehr Möglichkeiten, verschiedenste geografische Daten interaktiv zu entdecken. Mit dem neuen Portal bieten wir weitere Möglichkeiten und das nicht nur für Fachleute, sondern auch für die breite Öffentlichkeit», so Hetzel weiter. Das Geoportal wurde 2017 mit dem Ziel ins Leben gerufen, Geoinformationen ...

O portal de georreferenciamento de informações GeoSuzano, executado pela Prefeitura de Suzano por meio da Secretaria Municipal de Planejamento Urbano e Habitação, passa a oferecer novas funcionalidades a fim de contemplar o Plano Municipal de Conservação e Recuperação da Mata Atlântica (PMMA). Essa é a quinta atualização da ferramenta, que visa a democratização dos dados ...

The city’s municipality has created an online solar map which provides the first ever estimation of the solar possibilities for every rooftop in Budapest. Using the solar map as its first step, the ultimate goal of the project is to increase the use of solar energy across the city, leading to greater production of clean ...

The City of Santa Maria has launched a new website that allows people to report and track non-emergency issues located within the city limits. Called Neighborhood Connect, the website is a GIS (geographic information system)-based program designed to help city government track and identify trends, and to improve overall customer service. The website allows users ...

Using a revolutionary new AI-powered method, researchers are mining old insurance maps to visually reconstruct “ghost” neighborhoods — with promising results. The process could help with efforts to better estimate the economic loss caused by the demolition of historically diverse neighborhoods nationwide. It could also humanize that oft-forgotten history, bringing it to life in a ...

La localización, delimitación y asignación de topónimos de los asentamientos en los que el hombre ejerce alguna actividad sobre el territorio es fundamental para lograr un adecuado análisis de la realidad existente en el mismo, que permita planificar correctamente un desarrollo sostenible y sostenido en el tiempo. Con este objetivo, el Instituto de Estadística y ...

The Greater Chennai Police (GCP) on Tuesday launched mapping of crime zones using Geographic Information System (GIS). Commissioner of Police Shankar Jiwal inaugurated the new initiative at the integrated command and control centre. A special GIS centre has been established and equipped with the latest software tools to collate data from Crime and Criminal Tracking ...

Water supply in Utah’s capital city is in a good place after a robust snowpack runoff that’s all but over. As the irrigation season moves forward, Salt Lake City is turning to a new tool to help reduce overwatering in the summer. Salt Lake City officials announced a new pilot program with Utah State University ...

El Consell ha aprobado un acuerdo de cooperación entre la Conselleria de Política Territorial, Obras Públicas y Movilidad y la Universidad de Alicante (UA), a través del Departamento de Edificación y Urbanismo, para el fomento de la innovación tecnológica en el ámbito del urbanismo. El objetivo de este convenio es aportar soluciones concretas para la ...

La reciente aprobación del Mapa Estratégico de Ruido (MER) de la ciudad de León, por parte de la Dirección General de Infraestructuras y Sostenibilidad Ambiental de la Consejería de Medio Ambiente, Vivienda y Ordenación del Territorio, y su publicación en el Boletín Oficial de Castilla y León (Bocyl), va a permitir que se puedan hacer ...

Em 2023, Botuverá estreia sua plataforma de Geoprocessamento, embora com um lançamento em fase inicial. Ela conta com alguns dados importantes para a consulta pública, como as áreas de risco da Defesa Civil de movimentação de massa e inundações, massas de água e suas áreas de preservação permanente, o zoneamento da cidade (conforme o plano ...

Erfahren Sie Geoinformationen als digitales Erlebnis! Die Stadt Forchheim bietet ab sofort den „Digitalen Zwilling“ an. Ein geografisches Informationssystem (GIS) – dessen Daten zum Teil auch zur allgemeinen Nutzung (Bürger-GIS) zur Verfügung stehen – ist ein System zur Erfassung, Bearbeitung, Auswertung und Präsentation von Daten mit geografischen oder räumlichen Informationen. Über ein Jahr hat das ...

İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi (İBB) kurumu İstanbul Su İşleri ve Kanalizasyon İdaresi (İSKİ), yeni Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri (CBS) altyapısı olan “İSKİ Altyapı Bilgi Sistemi”ni (İSKABİS+) tanıttı. İSKİ’nin İstanbul içme suyu, atık su-yağmur suyu altyapı ve üstyapı tesislerinin konumsal olarak sorgulandığı, çeşitli network analizleri ile modelleme çalışmalarının yapıldığı coğrafi bilgi sistemi uygulaması, “İSKİ Altyapı Bilgi Sistemi” yenilendi.

The free Walks Near Me interactive digital map has thousands of opportunities to discover great public spaces across the state and create bespoke walking itineraries to visit them. The tool brings together spatial data from across the state into a single digital tool which can be found on the nsw.gov.au website and is optimised for ...