Development a PPGIS to Collect Geodata on the Particular Problems of Urban Furniture: a Bottom-Up Planning Approach

Today municipalities are searching for the new tools to increase public participation in different levels of urban planning. This approach of urban planning involves the community in planning process using participatory approaches instead of the long traditional top-down planning methods. These tools can be used to obtain the particular problems of urban furniture form the residents’ point of view. One of the tools that is designed with this goal is public participation GIS (PPGIS) that enables citizen to record and following up their feeling and spatial knowledge regarding main problems of the city, specifically urban furniture, in the form of maps. In this research we develop a PPGIS using of Web.2 to collect voluntary geo-data and saving this data in a spatial database. This way of collecting and saving data provides an opportunity for urban planners to analysis data and find problem’s clusters and extract knowledge of data. This system is implemented in a case study area in Tehran, Iran and the challenges to make it applicable and its potential for real urban planning have been evaluated. Doing some data mining analysis on this data is our next work.