Pune Municipality: Online GIS Will be Late, but Open to Additions
The plan was to get the online mapping app online in the municipality before the Commonwealth Youth Games beginning October 12, but that won’t be met. Still, the app, from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), should be online by December. Delays are something with which GIS pros are familiar. What’s interesting about this implementation which offers local search and routing: “The PMC would initially allow citizens to add to missing locations on the map.”
This can’t be the only city in India that allows input from residents. But it’s not the only place they can add data. Google is looking to fill in gaps in its maps of the country as well. What will convince a local to add to one or the other implementation?
Timing? Google already has an app up and running.
Ease of use? Why bother if adding information is clunky or slow.
The type of information? Why add data is the type of POI or nature of the data is not requested?
Tie to community? If one feels connected to, or has pride in, the local community, will they be more likely to “give” data to its database?
Licensing? Will users even consider what will happen to the location information they provide in the long term?
Advertising? Will the user-generated content simply go the service provider who makes residents most aware of the data collection program?
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