DEVELOPING SLUM INFORMATION SYSTEM OF KALABURAGI CITY USING GEOINFORMATICS FOR UNIFIED AND COMPREHENSIVE CITY DEVELOPMENT

Anil Gandhi; Sulochana Shekhar

Volume : V, Issue : IV, April - 2016

DEVELOPING SLUM INFORMATION SYSTEM OF KALABURAGI CITY USING GEOINFORMATICS FOR UNIFIED AND COMPREHENSIVE CITY DEVELOPMENT

Anil Gandhi, Sulochana Shekhar

Abstract :

Slum refers to the marked area by poverty and inferior living area. These are illegal urban settlements on public land, usually grow over a period of time which surrounds the city from all the sides and are more prevalent in the metros, but these are slowly becoming part in other cities and towns of India. Now a days due to emergence of the spatial technology it is possible to get updated information from the various parts of the world and these are more useful to the places where census data or other data are not readily available. A good base for decision or slum planner may assist them in accurate mapping, identifying the poor people in the settlement through the linkage of their socio–economic information to their spatial location and the resultant information after incorporating spatial information with the attribute information will be very much beneficial to the common people. Geoinformatics helps as a decision support system for proper planning and governance of urban areas with respect to resource allocation and generation, social environmental & infrastructural facilities. It is a platform which integrates multiple databases of information to provide spatial representation. This paper considers the use of Geoinformatics to provide a way to represent and analyse of the problem or provide a way out to diverse techniques. The slums map will give an indication to the academics, researchers and administrators for further planning activities.