Development of a cartographic service for assessing the urban environment (using the example of the Irkutsk agglomeration)
V.N. BOGDANOV, G.B. DUGAROVA
V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia
Keywords: agglomeration, environmental quality assessment, atlas, geoportal, rating method, transport accessibility
Abstract
The article describes the development of an online cartographic service for the rapid assessment of the quality of the urban environment within urban agglomerations. The server being created allows users to obtain information about the quality of the urban environment at a selected point based on a customizable set of criteria. The paper describes a methodology for forming an index of the quality of the urban environment, which includes an assessment by various groups of criteria, such as climatic, social, environmental conditions, transport infrastructure, etc. For each criterion, a rating method is used, which allows forming a final index. The territory of the Irkutsk urban agglomeration was chosen as the object of the study. The work describes the stages of creating a service, including collecting and processing data, developing algorithms for calculating indices, creating a website based on a geoportal. As an example, the calculation of the index of accessibility of comprehensive schools and proximity of industrial enterprises is considered. The created system will make up for the lack of services for rapid assessment of the quality of the urban environment and will become available to a wide range of users, including professionals and ordinary citizens, will make it possible to use extensive data for assessment.
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