As cities are more and more pressured with the rapid changes, data analysis and data visualization can help to speed up knowledge transfer and cope with the upcoming being more informed and involved. CityScan is a platform founded with the aim of preparing geodata and making it usable. With appealing visualisations, different groups of access to spatial data in an uncomplicated and efficient way. A cooperation project, CityScan consist of the interdisciplinary team with the experts from geography, urban development, mapping and communication fields. It started as a part of the MakeCity.berlin festival. The main vision of this platform is to bring different actors together, transfer information more transparently, and start a new initiative to make our cities more liveable. Making Berlin’s geospatial data more accessible and usable, the aim is to stimulate initial discussions.
Find out more information about CityScan here.