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The geographic information system (GIS), also known as
an electronic map, combines, organises, and analyses
diversified data based on spatial locations, transforming
the data into valuable information to facilitate decision
making. Today, many people talk about a smart city where
the flexible use of GIS forms a critical foundation for
building the smart city.
On many occasions, I have talked about Smart City 3.0
of which the essence is collaboration among the public,
172 the government, business organisations and academia.
A common spatial data infrastructure (CSDI) is formed
using information provided by the public, social media and
sensor networks in public places and solves the problems
of every metropolis, such as traffic congestion, elderly care
and the heat island effect.
A gigantic network of IoT
If the sensor network serves as human eyes, the internet
of things (IoT) is like a brain wave transmission system.
Today's IoT is large in scale, the objects connecting to the
