COVID-19 Response: GIS Best Practices from Across the Globe
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By Matthew Leger
Five months since the start of this pandemic, the GIS community across the world is still continuing to develop new innovative mapping solutions to help with local responses. In two of my recent posts on GIS best practices in local government (see the first post here, and the second here), I highlighted many US-based best practices and just a couple of international examples. In this piece, I wanted to provide some more international examples of how maps are being used to assist in local COVID response efforts:
Measuring Public Park Visitor Capacity in Singapore
As the world begins to reopen, residents everywhere will want to go out but may have to prepare for a Plan B, C, or D scenario if too many people are at their original desired destination. To help residents better plan their outdoor activities and get outside safely, Singapore has created a publicly available map highlighting real-time visitorship status of parks. Locals can pull up the map before heading to a particular park to see if there is a comfortable amount of people around, and can find alternative parks to go to if not.
