Leveraging current and historical data on location movements allows urban planners to understand current challenges and build smart, flexible and efficient cities.
As more cities begin to implement smart city planning based on data science, location intelligence insights help shape policies that will benefit neighborhoods and the people who live in them.
By incorporating location intelligence into urban planning, it becomes possible to develop infrastructure adapted to the needs of citizens, enhancing living conditions in any given city. In addition, spatial data helps to optimize costs and prioritize government administration projects.
What does location intelligence provide to urban planning?
Heat maps are used by any business sector to identify foot traffic and vehicular mobility patterns in an area or point of interest, as their visualization presents multiple pieces of data in a way that makes immediate sense.
Heat maps can be used to identify foot traffic patterns from a country-level scale to a more detailed level such as the infrastructure of a store or building.
Location intelligence is revolutionizing the way companies establish, operate and expand their business.
From deciding where to locate a new store to analyzing foot traffic to gauge market competition, the use of location data is growing.
One of the key components of location intelligence is data related to points of interest (POIs). POIs indicate a specific location in an area of interest to businesses: it can be a store, a hospital, a university, or a corporate building, among others, depending on the information required for the particular target, helping companies make faster, more informed and cost-effective decisions.
On August 12nd and 13rd the Sixth Business Roundtable on Construction Materials between South and Central America will take place in Panama City.
Colombian companies will be showcasing at the Megapolis Convention Center in Panama City their offers of "... construction materials, furniture and wood, metal, tools and appliances to local and international buyers."
With $27 million the World Bank will be financing from August the construction of the 26 kilometers of the road between Bluefields and San Francisco in the municipality of Nueva Guinea.
The road will be built with reinforced concrete within a period of two years and the Costa Rican company MECO SA will be running the project.
Omar Jimenez, representative of MECO, told Elnuevodiario.com.ni that they have "..." a strategy for working in the area considering it rains nine or ten months a year, but we have experience in such work and expect to carry it out within the stipulated time. '"
Through an agreement between the mayor of Managua and the International Cooperation Agency of Japan, a plan will be developed for territorial reorganization, public transport and drainage for the city.
Authorities at the Mayoral office in Managua said the document including the conditions of the project would be ready in 18 months. The plan intends to meet the economic, social and environmental needs of the Nicaraguan capital, by improving the current conditions in the city.
The increase in the amount of area fully constructed in the first quarter was 63% in the industrial sector, 61% in services, 30% in trade and 33% in residential buildings.
From a statement issued by the Central Bank of Nicaragua:
BCN reports on performance of private construction in the First Quarter 2015
The Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN) published on June 26, 2015, a report on Renovations in the first quarter of 2015, recording a growth of 39.6% of the area actually constructed upon, and an average annual growth of 11.3%. This result is explained by increases in the area actually built on in all its categories: residential (33.3%), industrial (63.5%), trade (30.7%) and services (61.9%).
A loan from the Kuwaiti government will be used to fund part of the construction of a new hospital in the province of Chinandega.
On October 18, the government of Nicaragua signed with Kuwaiti authorities a contract to build and equip a hospital in Realejo Township, in the province of Chinandega, 132 kilometers west of Managua. This contract is part of the total funding of the work.
Empresa Nicaragüense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados is putting out to tender the construction of transmission and distribution lines, wells and electromechanical works and construction of tanks for the improvement of the Water System of the City of Masaya.
Nicaragua Government Purchase 11/2014:
"Construction of Conduction and Distribution pipelines for the Improvement and Extension of the Water System of the City of Masaya."
More than $50 million will be invested in the construction of the new grinding plant which will increase cement production capacity in 2017 to reach 860,000 tons a year.
From a statement issued by Cemex:
CEMEX announces new CLH grinding plant in Nicaragua
Monterrey, Mexico. May 5, 2014
- CLH to invest approximately $ 55 million
- Production capacity to reach 860 thousand tons of cement in 2017
Corporación Salvadoreña de Inversiones is putting out to tender structural works and the installation of 300KVA substation in Puerto Corsain in La Union Bay, Gulf of Fonseca.
Government Purchase El Salvador LP-02-2014
"STRUCTURAL REPAIR AND CLEANING OF RAIL BEARING OF PUERTO CORSAIN BOATYARD, INCLUDING OTHER ADDITIONAL WORKS: SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF 300 KVA SUBSTATION AND REPAIR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE WALL."
The Ministry of Education in Panama is putting out to tender expansion works and improvement at various education centers.
Panama Government Purchase2014-0-07-0-03-LV-017176:
"PROJECT FOR COMPLETION IN TWO STAGES: DEVELOPMENT PLANS, ADAPTATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS OF CLASSROOMS IN MODULES 3 (BEHIND GYMNASIUM) WITH TEN (10) CLASSROOMS AND 2 BATHROOMS ON THE FIRST FLOOR AND DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, APPROVAL OF PLANS AND CONSTRUCTION OF MODULE FOR WORKSHOPS USED FOR CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRICITY AND MARINE STUDIES, AS PART OF INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMS AT INSTITUTO TÉCNICO SUPERIOR IN COLEGIO I.P.Y. COLON IN THE PROVINCE OF COLON, DISTRICT OF COLON. "
The Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers in Panama is tendering out the construction of aqueducts and sewers in Camino Real Bethania.
Panama Government Purchase 2013-2-66-0-08-LV-007 420:
"WATER AND SEWER CONSTRUCTION IN CAMINO REAL BETHANIA AND PUMPING STATION IN BETHANIA"
The deadline for submission of proposals is 14 February 2014.
The date and time of the pre-approval meeting is January 17, 2014 at 09:00 am at the AUDITORIUM HALL SERGIO GONZALEZ RUIZ, FOURTH FLOOR, BUILDING ON IDAAN VIA BRASIL.