Chennai Corporation to digitally map the city

Chennai:

Information on basic civic amenities available in the city will be at the fingertips soon for Chennaiites.A Digital Map of the city in the form of a mobile application will be a one-stop resource for the common man to find out the status of civic activities like garbage disposal, vaccinations camps, desiltation work on waterways etc . 

The Greater Chennai Corporation during its budget session on Friday announced that it will be mapping several of the city's resources through this app - canals, waterways, streets, garbage disposal vehicles, along with some of its services, via a digitized map. It is learnt at being a people-friendly app, this could make the GCC work transparent. 

This map, which can be accessed by the general public will throw live updates on the status of their civic infrastructure like streetlights, garbage disposal process, status of desilting waterways etc.

Some of the core utilities that the Digital Mapping facility promises at the outset, according to the Mayor Saidai Duraisamy are - traffic mapping, asset management and public infrastructure monitoring which will be done by a team from Anna University and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

This will be the first of its kind map from the State that will live track city infrastructure and amenities, after the few crowd-sourced online maps made by techies cropped up in the city during the recent floods, to locate and mark a location or detail.

Initially the peoject was likely to be launched in November last year, however due to the rains the project was delayed  This would be a single base map of Chennai which will include the extended areas and it will have several layers.The app wold be either developed either by National Informatics Centre or Anna University. Even IIT is in the reckoning.