Soon information about city will be at your fingertips
From
June 7, you will be able to locate hospitals, educational institutions,
government offices, and even taxi stands, in a jiffy. The Urban Design Research
Institute (UDRI) will launch an online open data platform, which will offer all
the information, for free, about the city.
The
platform has around 130 data layers, covering demography, land use and
development plans, housing, transportation, physical infrastructure, social
amenities, environment, livelihood and governance. “WebGIS is part of the
UDRI’s goal to make spatial data on Mumbai available online,” said Keya Kunte,
director of UDRI’s Bombay Studio and Projects.
The
data layers are superimposed on the map of Mumbai. For example, if someone
wants to know about hospitals, he has to select the sub-layer named after them
and locations of all hospitals in the city – which are currently on record with
the UDRI – will be shown on the digital map.
“This
is relevant at a time when data about the city lies with multiple government
departments, and is not easily accessible. It is also important when
highly-restrictive mapping policies such as the Geospatial Regulation Bill sit
side by side with the Digital India campaign. The platform aims to bridge the
data access gap for NGOs, researchers, civil society, and communities,” said
Pankaj Joshi, executive director, UDRI.
The
developers said they do not claim, at this moment, that all the available data
is error-free. “We can make it perfect only through peoples’ participation.
Once we go online, we would like NGOs, citizen groups and individuals come
forward to feed us with data,” said Ms. Kunte.
It
took over three years for the UDRI to pull information from various secondary
sources to produce the datasets, bringing them under one platform, which is
first of its kind in Mumbai. The project was supported by Ford Foundation and
the Bombay City Policy Research Foundation.
The Urban Design Research Institute will launch an online
open data platform
Source | The Hindu | 2 June 2016
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