Geospatial data for urban planning
Geographic information is indispensible for urban planning and management, and allows for understanding complex relationship between territory and population, housing and environment, urban and rural areas. Geospatial data are used in strategic decision making for sustainable urban development.
Cities and their suburbs are evolving, and landscapes are constantly changing. Yesterday’s rural or underdeveloped regions become tomorrow’s residential areas or industrial parks. Cities are growing faster than before, especially in Asia and Latin America.
Precise and actualized base maps, orthophoto maps and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) are vital for master planning. And because the area is constantly changing, cartographic products must also be constantly actualizing, updating and supplementing with new details. Again, as more and more information have been taking into account, the more important role is played by thematic mapping and GIS. Aerial imaging, topographic and land use mapping, 3D modeling, environmental and transportation mapping, surveying and terrestrial laser scanning, flood prone modeling are all part of services Zesmill provides to urban planning organizations, local governments and community-based organizations.
Our products and services:
- aerial and satellite images, orthophotos, Digital Elevation Models (DEM), Digital Terrain Models (DTM)
- topographic maps and GIS base layers for territorial and urban planning
- socio-economic data including population estimates
- urban, rural, and conservation areas landscape (land cover) and land use maps at a scale of 1:2,000-1:100,000
- open areas and park maps
- road, street and parking lot inventory
- traffic volume measurements
- environmental studies
- micro-climatic measurements in cities, urban heat island assessment
- urban forest mapping and tree inventory
- noise measurement and noise impact maps
- maps for historic building conservation and preservation, architectural heritage surveying
- the full spectrum of thematic maps
Seen that today’s cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America need a reliable data for sustainable urban development, Zesmill delivers a wide range of geospatial data and solutions for urban planning for newly industrialized and developing countries.
Zesmill’s references include surveying and mapping for several regional and urban planning projects, including new master plan for the city of Springfield, MD, USA; KfW-German-Denmark-funded program for Accra, Ghana; Kobuleti seashore development project (Georgia), Malaki development project (Greece).