Online Spatial Data Gathering as a Powerful Arm in Urban

Management (Study in Iranian Municipality)

Mohammad Ghaderi

Department of Urban Planning, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

Keywords: Spatial Data, Online Survey, SDI, Municipality.

Abstract: The old version of the spatial data collection method is not so convenient, is expensive and time-consuming

it causing the reluctance of municipalities to conduct space surveys. Online spatial data collection is a solution

to improve urban data surveys and facilitate relationships between databases. The SDI system as a host is

needed to save and collect spatial data, and an application running on a smartphone can locate and send

information tables to SDI. By the way, municipalities can define various audit items and investigate functional

by simplicity at a lower cost and faster than before.

1 INTRODUCTION

Urban management has faced many challenges over

the past few decades (Freire and Stren, 2013), and

Iran's urban management system is now transitioning

from traditional to new urban management based on

intelligence technologies we can see, municipality

cost in software development and system installation

is appropriate evidence of this claim.

As we know, information is an asset, and data

gathering is a concern in urban management systems

(Engin et al, 2020), due to the importance of data,

which is required by each organization an annually

significant amount a great deal of cost allocated to the

data gathering and their maintenance (Batty, 2018).

In the use of data, it's undeniable that must be noted

to the validity of data, data is the base of planning and

decision making in any organization (Bertsimas et al.,

2019). So, data collection and database creation is

great thing in city management. The locality of

information points in the urban's plan, location of the

features, location of urban disasters, an urban survey

in various topics, all are significant topics and

requirements of urban management (Haqi & Dühr,

2022). Although in some cases arriving the electronic

system in Iran urban management system facilitate

the current affair on the other side, the plenty number

of affairs doing by hand like an old manner, this

synthesis condition leads to a lack of close

The present study proposed in Hamedan Municipality

as an executive project and approved by sep 2021.

supervision, lack of transparency in management

affairs, slowness of the work process and so on, thus

not be able to create an optimum accomplishment. In

an extensive urban survey like an urban property

survey, old kinds of surveys take long about one year

or longer, hence, municipalities don't interest in this

method. Coupled with the high cost, there is not

enough time and technical personnel to control the

inspection data. But, the most important issue that

occurs during this process is the lack of proper

communication between surveying data and

municipalities electronic system (Cassandras, 2016),

one way is to try to scan the proper dossiers, while the

easier way is an online survey with a direct

connection between surveying data online dossiers in

the database. There are other issues in the handy

manner of surveys such as; in the last year's spatial

data gathering in the municipality survey by GPS and

gathering in local GIS that it doesn't have any

connection by the other subsections. The municipality

consists of several parts, each of them attempts to

survey their data in the way of the owner, there is no

integrity in the data gathering. Finally, a Spatial Data

Infrastructure (SDI) must be installed at the

municipality to create a participating database of

spatial data, known as geodatabase.

SDI provides numerous advantages in urban

management system (Ghaderi & Sadeghi Arj, 2019).

It can create an overall geodatabase in the

municipality as a host, and each subsection can

Ghaderi, M.

Online Spatial Data Gathering as a Powerful Arm in Urban Management (Study in Iranian Municipality).

DOI: 10.5220/0011106500003185

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upload their data and update it simplicity. SDI is not

only a powerful database; it is also a participating

network that receives and corrects spatial data

transmitted by other devices. It can connect to other

devices like GPS, Real-Time Kinematic (RTK), etc.

Using SDI as a host, the idea of an online survey may

become a reality, as described below.

2 METHODOLOGY

As mentioned earlier, to run an online survey

network, SDI is required as a host, and SDI creates

open access for anyone who wants to use the spatial

data SDI is able to receive spatial data from various

sources such as local GIS, other databases, external

devices, etc. Such as GPS and RTK, or even apps

running in smartphones. It is a powerful, newer

smartphone with the ability to locate via internal GPS

and receive signals via GPRS or Wi-Fi. SDI could

define data's forms, these forms are specific in any

project or survey, an application manipulated in

smartphones could open each form by the name of

each project, this app defines the location of each

urban features and it is able to precise locations by

auxiliary maps which presented in its background.

The mobile APP retrieves data online, quickly sends

data to SDI, or offline, and sends data when the device

is connected to the Internet. On the SDI side, the audit

data is received in a box, needs to be approved, and

when the operator confirm the data, it is sent to the

GIS layer and called features in the SDI layer. The

operator checks the data received in SDI for

problems, the data may be rejected or returned to the

sender. SDI has several tables in its database, each

table holds specific data for each section or it is a

maintain topic. For example, in a municipality, a table

would hold spatial data for transportation

organization, or a table would hold land property

data. Each form is updated online with their own

survey items, and their specific personnel and

operators can investigate the same data and confirm

its authenticity. Spatial data that receive to SDI not

only could influence in a table, but also could change

the condition of same feature in other layer or tables,

because of the SDI layer or table are related by Main

Key. One of the most famous Key in municipalities is

Dossier ID Property Number. The SDI structure

based on the online survey is shown in the figure

below.

3 CONCLUSION

Online data collecting specifically in the field of

spatial data can improve city management in several

cases. One of the real issues with which cities and its

administration are involved every day is city

violations. The online survey helps municipalities

report city violations, and once that data is turned into

SDI and approved quickly, it can lock down

electronic records and ban online services to the same

home. This limitation cannot be removed until the

issue is resolved.

Figure 1: Online survey in SDI.

Project

Form

mobile

check

YES

Traffic

Waste

Park

Property

Building

Environm

ent

facilities

social

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Another use of spatial online auditing is in large-

scale projects such as urban surveys, land surveys,

etc. All projects can be implemented in less time and

at lower cost compared to the convenient old way. In

this way, municipal experts can develop their control

over city characteristics and city section, and they can

update every part of the city for which they need

information. The spatial online survey project

completed in the city of Hamadan, Iran as a real

project, and several project defines and spatial data

are being collected, is an exciting conclusion of the

method, which can be seen in the city is enhancing

the level of city services in municipality. It stems

from the case that city services are monitored by the

audit project and any failures services reported

online. Under this approach, the municipal database

is updated daily and corrected for inefficiencies

information doing precisely. All in all spatial online

survey is a powerful arm of urban management as

benefits mentioned.

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Mohammad Ghaderi: Graduated Master of science in

regional planning, IUST, Working IN hamedan

Municipality As the SDI manager and GIS expert Sine

2016.

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