Improving decisionmaking through publishingGIS

• Thomas Øderud

• Michael Froentjes

• Bjørgulf B. Torjussen

• Per Boesen

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GIS

GIS presentations can be:

– Maps

– Statistical information in graphs with GIS links

– Photographs

– Manipulated photographs

– 3D images

– Simulations, i.e. 3D modelled new houses in a residential area.

– Even more lively presentations in animation-like presentations for instance in traffic-modelling of new road models.

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(The same) Open data in several contexts

Executive work

Preparing for executivedocuments and administrative and politicaldecisions.Analysis of developmentand possible known and unknown correlations.

Third party’s business development

Long term developmentindicatorsGive a picture of status and municipal developmentwithin the strategic fieldschosen:in:• Value pr indicator, • tables, • graphs and • GIS (Maps)

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DOES THE USE OF GIS-PRESENTATIONS MAKE A CHANGE IN EXECUTIVE PRESENTATIONSAND COMMUNICATION?

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Areas of executive work

Issues demanding some sort of administrative preparations can be:

– Redevelopment of city areas, transformation issues

– Regulatory issues residential areas

– Regulatory issues, i.e. area development, roads, electricity, water, waste-water, schools, kindergartens, ……….

– Applications for building permits

– Applications for financial support to projects, festivals, area development

– General questions/investigations into matters initiated by politicians

– Public service decisions like parks, football fields, leisure areas

– Public transport

– And more

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Areas of executive work

Service-provision:

• Health and social-care

• Kindergarten

• Schools

• Library

• Culture

• Clubs for youths

• ……….

The services do not demand executive work preparing for politicalissues, but will generate service-statistics, GIS data, local informationfor later use/investigation and probable impact on political decisions.

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Documentation

How are information provided for political decisions?

Documents with:

– Written text with problem definition, restraints and possibilities

– Tables of statistical data

– Graphs of different sorts

– Letters of recommendation or visa versa

– Printed excerpts of maps

– Recommendations for decision

All set to a background of plans and policies, and of course the public servants personal experience, which, of course, is individual and can be biased.

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Case 1

• Local main-line bus-network at present. “Compact city” example.

• As-is presentation, residential areas, bus-lines, marking households with less than 300 meters to the bus line, 300-500 meters to the bus line and over 500 meters.

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Municipal Statistical information for monitoring change and development

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Strategic fields and Indicators

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Environment

90 indicators

70 data-sets

At the moment several data-

sets/sources areunknown or undetected

Industrial and commercial

development

103 indicators

70 data-sets

At the moment several data-

sets/sources areunknown or undetected

Public health

115 indicators

80 data-sets

At the moment several data-

sets/sources areunknown or undetected

Finances and HR and organisation in

municpality

36 indicators

20 data-sets

Only a few aremissing

Some data-sets, ie demographic data, will be used in more than one strategic field/scope.

The indicators will be published on themunicipal web-portal

• Target groups:

– Administration

– Politicians

– Public

• All identified indicators will be published, in tables, graphsand GIS (when possible)

• All up-loading of data will be automated (hopefully!)

• All data will be directly downloadable or linked to for interested parties to do their own analysis.

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Fields and indicators are connected to municipalplan and action plans

• There are close links between the long- and short-term targets in the plans and poltically decided documents and theindicators chosen

• Indicators are categorized in A-, B- and C-level, where A-levelshould reflects directly with develoment in the municipality, B-level can do, and C-level is more basic data that is input to A- and B-indicators.

• The number of A-indicators outnumber the indicators in theMunicipal-plan (long term) and Action-plan, but are thoughtto have impacts that are interesting to follow.

• There is still work to do to refine the model

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GIS gives added value!

So what about using a GIS presentation?

– There is an obvious added value to the presentation since the geography/area concerned is defined

– There is an added value in giving indicators that are transparent and public, - and can be debated and tried by the public.

– All information is precise and common to/shared by all parties

– A lot of information is gathered from appliances placed with GIS coordinates

– Most information can be related to a geographical location, that being population, pollution, traffic-jams, distribution of wealth, and so on.

– BUT, maybe not at the wanted level of detail!!!!, since a lot of statistics are collected with no geographical reference other than municipality/city.

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Case 2

For a specific strategic field and indicator is chosen

• Norway

• County

• Urban agglomeration

• Municipality

• Urban district

• Borough

• Basic statistical unit/ward

• Address/ Building point/ …

All in an addable/subtractable structure

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Case 3.0: Free Basic Data in Denmark

• Real Property data as a service

• Terrain-model as a service

• Base map as a service

• Individuals and Buisnesses areconnected to Real Property data and adresses

The frameworkON Top of this we build the solutions!

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Case 3.1 – 3D data from open GIS source

Illustration project in 3D – Town development

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• Municipal saving – everyone has access to the same model.• Historical and contemporary project• Future projects (Building and infrastructure projects.) • Ex: Nærheden at Hedehusene with 4.200 houses and up til 10.000

new inhabitant in the next 25 – 30 years

• Faster planning• Fast and easy communications between partners• Better and more secure communications with citizens.

Case 3.1 – 3D data from open GIS source

What benefits can we achieve with 3D linked data?

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Case 3.2 – 3D data from open GIS source

Liquid Spill – see where the spill flows over

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Septima solution based on Free Open Data

When rain falls!

Blue spot for Høje-Taastrup –available for the public

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• The speed – broad band!

• Consistency of data

• Different standards

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Case 3.0: Free Basic Data in Denmark – somechallenges

What do we do then?

• New data distribution system (2015-2017)

• New or improved data modeling for distribution of data

Summing up

Use of GIS

• Increases accessibility

• Increases transparency

• Involves administration, politicians and public in same framework of statistics

• Increases public interest since information is available in a “ready-made” form

• Adds democratic value by, hopefully, a better understanding and greater interest in the public

• Increases the trust of political decisions by being more visual and thereby controllable

• All presentations are based on the same data that is accessible for the public, so all presentations can be checked and tested.

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