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Determining the appropriate planning locations of areas: commercial centers, residential areas, schools, hospitals greatly affects the quality of life of people later in that urban area.
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Energy - Determine the best location to build wind or solar farms or install energy infrastructure that provides and regenerates urban living environments.
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Potholes – Reporting potholes or automatically detecting them for infrastructure management.
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Asset Management – Reporting infrastructure defects with photos and geo-locations.
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Smart Cities – Integrating urban development visions with GIS such as smart urban planning, smart utilities, smart transportation, smart public works and citizen engagement.
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Water Main Breaks – Knowing exactly where water lines and shut-off valves are located, prior to work.
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Lightscape – Lighting up bridges picking out the illuminated details and obscured areas.
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Curb Cuts – Finding curb cuts that give access to people with disabilities
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Utility Poles – Inventorying utility poles with important attributes like overhead/underground, number of lines and date of construction.
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Waste Collection – Defining areas of waste collection, finding suitable rounds of service when given a waste or transfer station.
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Fire Hydrants – Locating hydrants in a municipality marking its general condition, date for greasing the caps and exercising the valve.
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Spatial Data Infrastructure – Connecting multiple users in separate departments for managing data, metadata, users and tools.
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Insect Control – Spraying pesticides to eliminate mosquitoes and other pests with knowing no-spray zones and status of the previous spray.
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Homeless Shelters – Analyzing urban inequalities and homelessness to allocate homeless shelters appropriately.
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Managing city assets (road conditions, utilities, billboards, and sign inventories) with mobile satellite data to inventory and ensure safety standards.
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Sewer Network – Design sewer systems and their networks with right-of-way considerations and using the flow by gravity.
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Advisories – Alerting citizens for any problem advisories by taking an area on a map, and connecting to a central database of phone numbers and automated message alerts.
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Street Cleaning – Plowing geographic zones of a city.
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Speed Limits – Defining speed limits in a road network with proper signage.
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Road Closures – Advising citizens of road closures visually on a map.
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Emergency Water Supply – Preparing emergency water supply when contaminated.
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Cemetery Mapping – Implemented a system to map cemeteries using unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs and storing graves in a spatial database.
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Open Information – Reducing the need of telephone operators by having data displayed on a map.
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Participatory GIS – Gearing towards decision-making from citizen input and geo-spatial technologies.
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Land for Development – Finding available serviced and unserviced land available for development.
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Toponymy – Giving each place, park, river and feature of interest a name.
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Lift Stations – Move the flow from a lower to a higher elevation for sewer utility.
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Stormwater Pollution – Measuring stormwater pollution by estimating runoff and sources
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Seismic Slope Stability – Modelling stability of slopes using geology and digital elevation models to understand potential of seismically-induced landslide hazards.
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Water Wells – Developing constraints for water wells such as quality, quantity, stressed aquifers, and contamination for drinking.
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Solid Waste – Picking up after ourselves with geo-referenced garbage collection routes.
