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MyDynamicCity – Highly Customizable Open-source PPGIS Software Employed for Participatory Mapping in the city of Zagreb

Today, Public participation GIS (PPGIS) are successfully employed in different spatial contexts and for a variety of purposes. PPGIS methods integrate collecting non-expert spatial and aspatial information in a participative process. Usually, results gathered using PPGIS are used to represent public opinion on a particular topic, e.g., to inform spatial planning and decision-making. Currently, there are various commercial and non-commercial – often open-source – PPGIS software packages available on the market. Here, we present the motivation for applying PPGIS methods, and introduce MyDynamicCity, a highly customizable, adaptive, and re-usable open- source PPGIS software. MyDynamicCity was used for collecting data in a PPGIS survey conducted for the city of Zagreb, Croatia, focusing on the mapping of selected cultural ecosystem services and ecosystem disservices related to the city’s urban green infrastructure, as perceived by the respondents. Furthermore, the survey sought to elicit contextual information, e.g., using open and close-ended questions, multiple choice, or Likert-scale items. The integration of open-source extensions, e.g., enabled as elements as part of a fully customizable front page, implements heatmaps of so far collected spatial data to inform other participants and provide preliminary results to the interested public. The high customization of MyDynamicCity helped designing and tailoring the PPGIS survey to the local context of Zagreb. While the survey is still open to participation, at this moment more than 200 people took part, ensuring richness of collected data and confirmation of software usability. MyDynamicCity could therefore find its application in diversity of projects for the benefit of research and society.

PPGIS ; open-source ; MyDynamicCity ; Zagreb ; software

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