A product of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

V.SURYA PRAKASH MANAGING ASSOCIATE, WRI INDIA, BENGALURU

+91.94805.14805; SURYA.PRAKASH@WRI.ORG

SPATIAL DATA ANALYTICS AND MAPPING TO MANAGE CITIES

NEED FOR UNIFIED INFORMATION CENTRE

• “Government that leads in geospatial technologies systems leads in innovation and economic growth”.

• Cities and states around the world are capitalizing on the financial and efficiency benefits of dissolving municipal silos in order to streamline and operationalize spatial data.

• Open data has the potential to transform governance by bringing in transparency and accelerate economic development

• Recommended by the BBMP restructuring expert committee in 2015

DUPLICATION, FILE FORMATS & QUALITY  Agency Layer Classification Sector  / 

subsector Geospatial Information  Projection System Feature Class Data counts1

BESCOM RoadCenterLine Mobility / RoadsRoad network with flyovers, bridges, type (NH, SH, major, minor, track) WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_43N Line 16,161

2 BESCOM Road Edge Mobility / Roads Extents of road edge WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_43N polygon 383 BMRCL Mobility / Metro Mobility / Metro Alignment drawings AutoCAD4 BMRDA LPAs Mobility / Roads Master plans of LPAs in BMRDA, Road alignmentsEverest_Bangladesh_Polyconic5 BTP Corridors Mobility / Roads Corridors KML Line 216 KSRSAC Roads Centre line Mobility / Roads Alignment Everest_Bangladesh_Polyconic Line 78,8957 KSRSAC Roads Polygons Mobility / Roads Same as above in polygons Everest_Bangladesh_Polyconic Polygon 3278 BWSSB New Roads Mobility / Roads Road name (for some roads), length and type PCS_Transverse_Mercator Line 2,18,0679 BWSSB Road Mobility / Roads Road alignment PCS_Transverse_Mercator Line 1,85,68310 BMTC Big10routes Mobility / BMTC Big 10 bus routes GCS_WGS_1984 Line 1311 BMTC Routes Mobility / BMTC Bus stop name, location and bus route no. GCS_WGS_1984 Point 5,45112 BBMP Zone wise - New

Roads Mobility / RoadsRoad name, type, length (with ward name, no. zone name) GCS_WGS_1984 Polygon 1,07,394

13 BBMP Zone wise - Roads Center line Mobility / Roads

Road name, type, length (with ward name, no. zone name) GCS_WGS_1984 Line 92,825

14 BDA BDA Mobility / RoadsOrthorectified image for BMA, road center line, edges Raster

15 BDA RMP - 2031 Mobility / Roads Flyovers/bridges in BMA limits WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_43N polygon 1,07116 BDA RMP - 2031 Location of trees along major road corridors WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_43N point 2,75,58917 KSRSAC Flyover Mobility / Roads Type of Flyover Everest_Bangladesh_Polyconic Line 12718 KSRSAC Flyover Polygon Mobility / Roads Type of Flyover Everest_Bangladesh_Polyconic Polygon 97

OBJECTIVES FOR BASIC

• Single agency responsible for collating, creating and sharing authoritative GIS database available to all agencies, enterprises and citizens

• Integration by bringing together the fragmented data from individual departments, standardise the mapping procedures and sharing protocols

• Develop 2D and 3D geospatial information, data analytical and visualisation applications

• Obtain updates from Government agencies, Public and Private sources and keep the datasets up to date

• Follow vendor neutral, platform neutral and interoperability principles for easy sharing.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SPATIAL CENTRE

• Urban Development Department (UDD) to initiate the process of setting up Bengaluru Spatial Information Centre (BASIC)– Mandate all the agencies compulsorily share a copy of their datasets (spatial and

non-spatial) – This will in line with, The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy, 2012

• Set up a task force to establish the center and come out with draft Geospatial Act (Identify a champion to lead the task force)

• Pass Geo-Spatial Act to mandate the setting up of an independent agency to be the single source and custodian of all geo spatial data for the city-region

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SPATIAL CENTRE

• Set up the Bengaluru Spatial Information Centre (BASIC) as an independent statutory agency or executive agency as per the provisions of the Geo-spatial Act with appropriate infrastructure and Professional Staff

• Mainstreaming BASIC to become the preferred destination across varied stakeholders for data creation, storage and sharing that is current and of high quality

• BASIC to transition into an open data platform opening data to the public, enabling crowd sourcing, and promoting geo spatial literacy

PROPOSED ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

RELEVANCE OF UNIFIED PLATFORMS

• Aadhaar project helped to save Rs.50,000 on subsidies (by investing Rs.10,000 crores)

• Railway’s digital platform is estimated to save Rs.60,000 crores (by investing Rs.12,000 crores)

FOR DISCUSSION

• How citywide data centres help in leveraging the information for better planning, managing and governing the cities

• Open data – availability, standards and regulatory framework

• Challenges and opportunities– establishing dedicated agency– regulatory framework– data integration– adopting digital platforms– staff capacities– outsourcing to private agencies