Surface Area: 1,306 KmSq
Population: 6.5 million
Duration: 24 months

Client: Bangalore Development Authority

The MSDI project’s main goal was the creation of the urban Master Plan for the year 2015 through the use of cutting edge spatial technology.

The governing principle of the MSDI project as well as its main challenge is to build, in parallel, a Sustainable Urban Geographical Information System along with a renewed approach to city planning. That is to say to provide, collect, organise and standardise all kinds of data into a mega urban database ranging from satellite images to building footprints that interest all public and private stakeholders. This database needed to be both spatially meaningful and usable to the various experts and stakeholders involved in the planning of the city. The creation of the spatial urban repository in a way meant the creation of a ‘spatial memory’ of the territory.

Objectives Of MSDI:

• Urban Planning and management

• Management of the new Urban Master Plan for Bangalore 2021,

• Definition and elaboration of the Urban Regulatory framework.

• Implementation of Spatial Data Infrastructure comprising –
  -A large scale GIS map: 1: 2000 that is totally GIS enabled (1500km²) benefiting from the latest technologies (3D-modelling, high resolution satellite images, etc)
  -Development and implementation of a number of urban management GIS software (Bangalore Visio©,   MSDI online©,    Bangalore Geokiosk© etc.).
  
• Setting up of a complete training program and institutional strengthening, dealing with:
   - GIS and cartography, urban project management, urban planning and urban design, utility and infrastructure design  and management, etc.

• High quality cartographic outputs for the client

MSDI was complemented by various softwares in-house: (click below to view details)

• MSDI VISIO
• MSDI Geo-Kiosk
• MSDI Project Management