Cartographic Service for Assessing an Urban Environment Based on the Atlas of Urbanized Territories

This work is devoted to the development of an online cartographic service for the operational assessment of the quality of the urban environment within urban agglomerations. It is based on digital data from atlases of urbanized territories and allows users to obtain information about the quality of the urban environment at a selected point based on a configurable set of criteria. The paper describes a methodology for the formation of an urban environment quality index, which includes an assessment according to various groups of criteria, such as climatic, social, environmental conditions, and transport infrastructure. For each criterion, a rating method is used that allows one to generate a final index. The territory of the Irkutsk urban agglomeration was chosen as the object of the study. The work describes the stages of creating the service, including data collection and processing, the development of algorithms for calculating indexes, and the creation of a site based on a geoportal. As an example, the calculation of the index of accessibility of secondary schools and the proximity of industrial enterprises is considered. The system being created will make up for the lack of services for rapid assessment of the quality of the urban environment; it will become available to a wide range of users, including professionals and ordinary citizens, and make it possible to use extensive data from atlases of urbanized territories.