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Public sector & urban planning: GIS for towns and cities

Flood risk, planning and open data for towns and their residents.

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What we analyse.

The types of analysis we run in this industry, each with its examples here.

All eleven types

From flood risk to public services.

Three questions a town asks of its maps.

Before the next flood

Which streets and buildings are at risk?

Elevation, slope, land use, rivers and population weighted into flood risk classes, so the most exposed areas show first.

Flood, heat and environmental exposure

For health and climate plans

Where is the town hottest?

Surface temperature and vegetation from satellite, mapped neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

Surface temperature

For every resident

Who can reach a school or a clinic?

Travel times along the real road network to schools, clinics and stops, not straight-line circles.

Proximity, access and catchment

How you receive it.

The same work, in the form each person on your team needs.

  1. An open web map or geoportal, published through our Web GIS service.

    Open the service
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Open web maps

An open web map or geoportal, published through our Web GIS service.

Open web maps

Where do residents see it?

An open web map or geoportal, published through our Web GIS service.

Maps from our projects.

Every map here is our own work; the caption under it says what it shows.

Flood-risk map of Puerto Casado on the Paraguay River, from very low risk in blue to very high risk in red

Flood risk, Puerto Casado, Paraguay, 2024

Flood risk (821 ha study area)

  • Very low
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
  • Very high
  • Paraguay River

Projects in this industry.

The projects we delivered in this industry: open one to see its page or its whole map.

All projects

Questions about towns and cities.

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01Can you map flood risk for a town?

Yes. We weight factors such as elevation, slope, land use, hydrology and population density into hazard and risk classes. In a study of Puerto Casado, Paraguay, for a private client, we used 5 weighted factors and 5 risk classes.

02Can you map urban heat and green space?

Yes, from satellite surface temperature and vegetation data, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

03Can you measure access to services?

Yes, with travel times along the real road network to schools, clinics or stops, not straight-line circles.

04Can residents see the maps?

Yes. We can publish them as an open web map or geoportal through our Web GIS service.

Other industries.

The same way of working, for other kinds of project.

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Based in Bucharest, working with clients on five continents.

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