Thursday, April 30th, 2015
To create a digital map of the city, Corporation of Chennai has roped in a private consultant to record properties, street lights, roads and storm water drains in two areas in the city on a pilot basis. The...
Sunday, October 26th, 2014
For the third time in six years, Chennai Corporation will embark upon the task of digitally mapping the entire 426 sq km of the city. The massive exercise, an attempt to establish the position of every building, road, pavement,...
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
The Chennai civic body will offer training to sensitise its engineers about heritage in the city. Special sessions on planning better civic infrastructure for the city have already commenced. Learning on technical aspects pertaining to architecture and...
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
The city corporation is planning to create a map of the tree cover in Chennai in a bid to improve supervision and identify areas in need of a better canopy. The pilot survey will begin in ward...
Friday, January 31st, 2014
It wasn’t until a group called Transparent Chennai decided to digitally map the sprawling city’s slums that the local government even realized these half a million impoverished souls existed. Using open source software, Google Maps and good...
Sunday, February 10th, 2013
On Saturday, the foundation stone for a permanent structure for a Geospatial Data Centre of the Survey of India in Chennai was laid in Velachery near the Perungudi MRTS station. The geospatial data centre, which now functions from...
Sunday, August 7th, 2011
Pointing out that Chennai and certain other cities located close to the sea have to be prepared to face a rise in sea levels by the turn of the century, noted agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan on...
