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• Urban Change Week: Do Your Bit to Change the City for the Better

  Quick notifications about environmental disasters, peer-to-peer information about coffee shops and bakeries, a catalog of trees, and a map of the city’s emotions and urban problems… With the use of geoinformation systems, you can gather data about literally everything concerning urban development. Public participation geographic information systems (GIS) combine the advantages of online surveys and public maps. Such public maps indicate, for example, that over the last 30 years, about 50% of trees in St. Petersburg have been cut out, replaced with recycling drop-off centers and problematic areas. As part of the Urban Change Week held in St. Petersburg on April 17-20, project managers discussed the issue of blind spots and cars supplanting trees, and why it is important to report city problems. In this article, ITMO.NEWS gathered information about all public maps and algorithms which can help us change the city for the better together.

  24.04.2019