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Thailand: Mapping out where to live and build

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Many realised they had failed to check city plans for flood zones when the great flood of 2011 ravaged Bangkok, asserts the Bangkok Post. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) City Planning Department has drawn up a 3D city planning map highlighting traffic routes, infrastructure and risk areas for potential property owners and developers. The 3D city map is available to the public online.

"This application is very important because in the past we have not had the technology to help the general public make decisions that factor in ground-level data to prevent flooding," BMA deputy governor Vallop Suwandee said. "The floods that hit the capital last year have raised public concerns about choosing a [building] location by adding the ground level to the equation."

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Hazards Flood
Themes Urban risk and planning GIS and mapping Critical infrastructure
Country and region Thailand

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