Municipal Solutions

1 Overview
Municipal corporations demand extensive use of spatial data sets such as maps, drawings, satellite
imagery and non-spatial data sets related to property, demography and socio economic pattern across
different functions. Non availability of reliable and accurate data may lead to reduced efficiency and
effectiveness in day to day operations.

Municipal Corporation can explore the potential for enhancement in revenues and improvement of
urban governance through implementation of state-of-the-art spatial technologies that help bring
operational effectiveness and efficiencies in various functions including urban development, property
tax, hawker management, slum management, Disaster management, Infrastructure management and
allied services.

Advanced survey technologies play a major role in capturing the ground reality as is in an interactive
360 degree immersive panoramic imagery media with precise geographic coordinates of real-world
environment. It comes with visual search intelligence and location based analytical functionalities
integrated in a GIS environment that can be customized.

Reality survey data offers visually enriched informed decision making capabilities at all levels and across
various municipal functions. Survey through vehicle mounted mapping systems is faster and accurate
opposed to conventional techniques.

Municipal corporations have been recognizing the need of a comprehensive GIS based system to make
spatial and non-spatial data available on a single platform with mapping of ground reality as is that can
become a reliable aid for improving transparency and accountability at the Government-to-Government
and Government-to-Citizen Interfaces. Municipal corporations can benefit in their functions by ensuring
presence of accurate information in their records compared to ground reality as it exists.

2 Approach
Cutting edge technologies through its in-house research and global partnership to bring the best in
digital maps and map production techniques. The CityScape initiative offers a wide range of solutions for
effective urban governance.

CityScape captures pictures of the real world by stitching together high resolution camera pictures. A
web-based viewer shows photo-realistic images of real-world scenery and allows users to zoom through
the images, resulting in an experience where it feels like one is moving through a real world. These
images are geo coded with the base map of the area with provisions to attach attribute data within the
environment enabling simultaneous navigation capabilities between the imagery and map data.

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3 Data Components
Below are the fundamental components of Solution:

Panoramic Imagery: Photo-realistic street level imagery of real-world captured

in 360 degree immersive media

Geo-referenced Map: Geo-referenced street-level map of the area.

Solution has provision to include user provided project specific maps,
which may, for example, include:

Development / Master Plans

Land Use map created from high resolution satellite imagery
Digitized cadastral maps

Attribute data: Project specific attributes information (user provided) on

features and objects viewable on the map and panoramic imagery

4 Solutions
Based on the technology, following are customized GIS-based software solutions to support Urban Local
Bodies and Urban Development Authorities in effective urban planning, development and
administration.

i) SeeProperty: Solution for property tax management

ii) SeeHawk : Solution for hawkers management
iii) SeeBoard: Solution for hoarding management
iv) SeeSlum: Solution for slum management

i) SeeProperty

SeeProperty is a unified geospatial environment with visual inspection interface and integrated data
sets for property tax assessment/reassessment that helps Municipal Corporations in improving the
efficiency and effectiveness of property tax , helps in identifying the legal/illegal properties, assessment
processes leading to improved visibility, traceability, accountability and transparency in property tax
function.

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 Benefits:

Reality image information with time and location reference

Remote visualization
Efficient Tax/Fee reassessment, regularization and arbitration process
Display statistics as per the type of deviation legal/illegal
Easy access of information to stakeholders across different departments
Efficient management of property records
Limits periodic ground inspection
Effective verification through visual comparison of reality against GIS and MIS data

ii) SeeHawk

SeeHawk describes an integrated platform for managing Hawkers locating from Map and visualizing
from panoramic imagery. It helps in associating hawkers over map, their attributes and tracking their
operations based on license expiry, operating from no-hawking zones, planning in issuance of additional
licenses to hawkers in a particular region/stretch of road.

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 Benefits:

Online registration and management of hawkers/street vendors and spatially identifying

the business- location/space
Integration of photo census and biometrics
Change management and data editing interfaces
Tracking defaulter
Identifying gap areas in implementation through detailed surveys and revision of the
development plan for future
Spatially search and locate asset of desired specific hawker(s)
Remote execution for new hawker zones, re-arrangement of existing hawker zones,
removal or shifting of hawker zones - for planning, monitoring, maintenance and
administration

iii) SeeBoard

SeeBoard solution with the aid of a real visual reference of the hoardings as they are and where they
are on the ground integrated into GIS database facilitates evaluation of licensing, legitimate record of
registration and improvement of revenues thereby.

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 Benefits:

Remote visualization assisted with identification of suitable parameters for fee

calculation - size of hoarding, location to help define fee model and streamline revenue
collection process
Search hoarding based on attribute value and display on both GIS Map and Imagery
Application processing for new erections/renewals
Tracking illegal licenses/expired licenses of hoardings

iv) SeeSlum

SeeSlum solution supports municipal functions in slum control and management with aid of 360 degree
visual immersive panoramic views, maps and slum survey information integrated with the power of GIS
online.

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 Benefits:

Slum dwelling mapping/indexing with necessary building/structure foot prints

Slum dweller/dwelling unique identification and administration tools with occupant details,
Photo ID, finger prints and other details
Identification of suitable areas for rehabilitation
Visualization support for planning and designing of infrastructure and provision of basic
urban services in the slum
Associate detailed notes collected during survey or walk-through of areas and identify
points of interest for retrieval and audit trails all enabled through the visual search
intelligence.
3-way navigation with image, maps/drawings and attributes interactively for improved
visualization and decision making

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