Application with Geoinformation for Control of Damage in Public Property

Abstract

Aiming to improve population life quality of the Brazilian Federal District, and using concepts of Information Architecture and Geoinformation, this research presents a mobile application with objective of facilitating practice of denouncing damages to the public patrimony, locating geographically and cataloging this damage so that public sector is notified and population perceives changes and actions taken by the government. Mobile platforms are becoming other channels through which citizens can report information in real time. Federal District currently has 3 million inhabitants and 5.8 thousand km² , and it is common to see areas without sanitation, without asphalts and with damages to public patrimony such as fallen poles, squares vandalized, abandoned buildings, among others. By means of geolocation and damage mapping, Volunteered Geographic Information and this mobile application allows citizen to make complaints and ask government to do maintenance, being a new tool to help environment and human being life. IndexTerms-Volunteered geographic information, geoinformation, mobile application, public patrimony.