Urban Plans and Projects monitoring platform
We developed and deployed an Urban Plans and Projects monitoring
platform for Perspective.brussels.
It ensures the implementation of a cross-functional information
system common to all the administration's departments, while
addressing the various needs by creating dedicated applications.
Plans & Projects
The plans and projects application lets you encode and view projects as well as the timeline of the various encodings. For this application, the notion of scale is very important. There is the scale specific to the project, the scale of the Region, which allows us to take a step back and consider the project in its urban environment, and the scale of the information unit, which is the encoding scale. Multiple information units can be encoded. Each project is associated with an image, a full name, structured information and a geographical reference. The name alone is essential for a project to exist.
Terms & Domains
This application is used to create and define the Terms and Domains
used in the Plans & Projects application. This application is very
text-based and technically very simple: it involves describing and
defining a thesaurus for qualifying urban plans and projects.
As the concepts involved are changing and evolving, this application
gives operators the freedom to develop the semantics underlying
their information system. This freedom comes with the responsibility
of structuring and defining terms collectively, to gradually
consolidate a common language.
Queries
The query application can be used to filter and extract projects
encoded in the Plans & Projects application, so that they can be
consulted in listing form, exported for use in a spreadsheet, or
used to create dynamic maps.
To do this, the application offers a query creation wizard that
enables users who are not familiar with SQL to extract data on a
more semantic basis.
Once the query has been built, it is then possible to choose which
information will be included in the result of the query. A query can
be saved for personal use, or shared with other users of the
application. Query results are dynamic, which means that they are
updated according to what is entered in the Plans & Projets
application, whether in the form of a table or a map.