scholarly journals Examining the value of spatial vs. non-spatial open data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Greene
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Data Formats ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Data Program ◽  
The City

This research paper analyzes how the value of open data varies based on the goal of the open data program, and the format in which the data are provided. Four cities across Canada which make up the G4 are examined to identify common themes of open data available, and assess the data formats found most often within these themes. Further, the City of Toronto is examined in a case study to evaluate their open data program and assess if spatial open data are more prevalent within the theme of innovation for economic development. Findings from this research indicate that there are some data themes which typically have mostly spatial and/or non-spatial data formats, while there is also a group of themes which have a wide variety of both formats available. This paper also finds that the City of Toronto has a high prevalence of spatial open data within the theme of innovation. The evaluation created for this study could be used in assessing the value of spatial open data within and between cities.

scholarly journals Examining the value of spatial vs. non-spatial open data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Greene
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Data Formats ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Data Program ◽  
The City

This research paper analyzes how the value of open data varies based on the goal of the open data program, and the format in which the data are provided. Four cities across Canada which make up the G4 are examined to identify common themes of open data available, and assess the data formats found most often within these themes. Further, the City of Toronto is examined in a case study to evaluate their open data program and assess if spatial open data are more prevalent within the theme of innovation for economic development. Findings from this research indicate that there are some data themes which typically have mostly spatial and/or non-spatial data formats, while there is also a group of themes which have a wide variety of both formats available. This paper also finds that the City of Toronto has a high prevalence of spatial open data within the theme of innovation. The evaluation created for this study could be used in assessing the value of spatial open data within and between cities.

scholarly journals Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802097265
Author(s):  
Matthew Thompson ◽  
Alan Southern ◽  
Helen Heap
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
City Region ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Urban Economic Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Economies ◽  
The City

This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this framing. This research suggests that the social economy has the potential to build a workable alternative to neoliberal economic development if given sufficient tailored institutional support and if seen as a holistic integrated city-regional system, with anchor institutions and community anchor organisations playing key roles.

scholarly journals Realigning Economic Development to Support Company Startup and Scale Up: A Burlington, Ontario Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Anita Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Development Corporation ◽  
The City

<p>In 2015 the City of Burlington developed a new 2015-2040 Strategic Plan: <em>Grow Bold, </em>which tasked Burlington Economic Development Corporation (BEDC) with supporting the start up and scale up of companies and making Burlington a start up destination. This article will outline the process that BEDC went through to better understand the local innovation ecosystem and the role that BEDC could play in supporting it. This process resulted in BEDC going from no role in supporting companies to start and grow to launching, TechPlace, Burlington’s new innovation Centre in 2017, which supported over 4,000 visitors in their entrepreneurial journey in year one of operations. </p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Job Creation, Startup Support, Innovation Centre</p>

Emotional and Subjective Volunteered Geographical Information

2017 ◽  
pp. 97-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiri Panek
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
Spatial Locations ◽  
The City

Crowdsroucing of emotional information can take many forms, from social networks data mining to large-scale surveys. The author presents the case-study of emotional mapping in Ostrava´s district Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic. Together with the local administration, the author crowdsourced the emotional perceptions of the location from almost 400 citizens, who created 4,051 spatial features. Additional to the spatial data there were 1,244 comments and suggestions for improvements in the district. Furthermore, the author is looking for patterns and hot-spots within the city and if there are any relevant linkages between certain emotions and spatial locations within the city.

Motivating Tourism

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
The Core

Attempts have been made for long to classify tourists by activities, interests and opinions (AIOs), by values and even, typology of the tourist based on personality characteristics. Pearce (1993) observes, tourist motivation is in fact “discretionary, episodic, future oriented, dynamic, socially influenced, and evolving” with “attitudes, behavioural intentions, values, preferences, beliefs, needs, and goals thereby presenting spaghetti of overlapping and interlocking concepts”. This research paper is a case study of how ‘Club Mahindra Holidays' flagship brand of Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd., (MHRIL) started in 1996, has been successful in motivating tourism in general and in India in particular. It also attempts to understand how tourism is based on motivating theories and draw lessons for evolving successful tourism strategies based on the core values such as Reliability, Trust and Customer Satisfaction. The case study will enable tourism organizations to adopt best practices, strategize well for success and contribute to economic development in this era of globalization.

scholarly journals Brownfield redevelopment : a case study of the Lakeview waterfront revitalization in Mississauga

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beata Palka
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Brownfield Redevelopment ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Project Structure ◽  
The City

This research paper is a case study examining the development of the Vision for the Ontario Power Generation lands in Lakeview. The interests if stakeholders such as the City of Mississauga, the Lakeview residents, the Region of Peel, the Province of Ontario, Credit Valley Conservation, as well as the Toronto and Region Conservation will be discussed. The importance of the history of Lakeview, the public consulation process, the project structure, as well as the next steps will be critically talked about in detail. This purpose of this paper is t provide other municipalities with recommendations on brownfield redevelopment and thus give them a better understanding of things to consider and potential roadblocks and challenges that could arise.

scholarly journals A Prototype Geospatial Knowledge Graph for National Topographic Mapping

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Dalia E. Varanka
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Flat File ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Topographic Data ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Data Formats ◽  
Abstract Knowledge ◽  
Data Semantics

Abstract. Knowledge graphs (KG) are a virtual layer connecting disparate databases into an interoperable framework. Though the application of KGs for enterprises are increasing, geospatial KG design is not common. This presentation describes U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research to build KGs for integrating geospatial and non-spatial attribute semantics of topographic data. Those geographic information system databases are composed of various feature types and metadata attributes organized various themes and stored in different data formats, such as geodatabases, flat-file spreadsheets, and raster images. The system being created tests two research objectives: 1) the feasibility of semantic technology approaches for geospatial data within the context of national topographic data and 2) the contribution to building a body of knowledge about system architecture for geospatial ontologies and linked open data. This presentation discusses the context of topographic data semantics, the problem and aims of building the system, and the integrated KG framework. The basic workflow and operations of the system architecture consisting of open-source software are described. The architecture modifies existing software with unique solutions such as performing GeoSPAQL queries with Postgres, a relational table datastore, and a map interface with extensions to support linked data queries as browseable graphs. As public spatial data infrastructure, the system is made available as a Docker Container on GitHub.

scholarly journals Comprehensive study on the amount of CO2 absorbed by vegetation: A case study in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 304 ◽  
pp. 03009
Author(s):  
Truong Nguyen X ◽  
Phan Cao H H ◽  
Hao Nguyen N ◽  
Huyen Duong T T ◽  
Nhat Tran T ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Subsurface Water ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Administrative Unit ◽  
The City

The city Ho Chi Minh (HCMC) is one of the largest cities in Vietnam with the most dramatically economic development rate. Along with the economic development, the urbanization process in this city is also taking place very fastly. Due to the rapid urbanization and development, the emission rate from the industry and transportation leads to the increase in the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) which has been worsening the climate change. Protecting forests and conducting afforestation so that CO2 is transformed to nutrition through photosynthetic conversion is one of the most effective ways to mitigate the effects of climate change. As a result, the accumulation of CO2 emissions has become a global concern. Vegetation absorbs carbon dioxide, helps to conserve the environment, produces oxygen, reduces noise, and helps to stabilize subsurface water. This paper highlights the results of ENVI software which was used to interpret remote sensing images and Arcgis to evaluate the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by vegetation in each administrative unit: district in HCMC and ward. According to the obtained results, the amount of CO2 absorbed in urban districts “District 1”, “District 3”, “District 4”, “District 5”, “Phu Nhuan District” is immensely low due to the high population density in the center of city. The population is mainly concentrated in the center districts but land area for vegetation is low. Regarding the suburban area, with mangrove forests, Can Gio District has the highest amount of CO2 absorbed of 35,894.075 tons/day and followed by Cu Chi District with 21,548.48 tons/day. It can be indicated that Can Gio and Cu Chi districts improtantly function like the greenhouse gas sinks for the whole HCMC. The success of this study could contribute to climate change mitigation and support in urban and land planning, as well as resettlement policies. Aside from that, CO2 emission and absorption assessment and evaluation in large–scale cities like HCMC has become a crucial, urgent, and practical issue nowadays.

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