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February 24th, 2014
Ahmedabad to Survey and Map for Better City Services

In an attempt to improve its functioning, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will soon create an elaborate map of all the properties of the city. Satellite-based technology known as Geographic Information System (GIS) will be used for the mapping. AMC has invited proposals from the interested parties for carrying out a survey in the city as well as creation of the map. The project will help in creating a digital base-map of the city which will have a record of all properties as well as municipal services like drainage lines, water network, man-holes, streetlights and buildings and other attributes. As part of GIS mapping, each property will be given a unique number for identification in the map. Read More