**6.1. Scenario 1: GeoMeeting: how well municipalities are meeting the need for parks**

As parks are crucial to communities, because parks provide opportunities to people or public for exercise and experience nature which are paramount for physical and mental well-being of humans, it helps in revitalizing local economies; so there is a dire need to estimate park areas and raise municipality residents' living standards. For recognition and generation of easy access to basic essentials of life, such as national parks, green infrastructure, recreation, etc., Government bodies are primarily accountable or answerable because they maintained the available park data but they are not sufficient to fulfill the challenges of data handling and sharing. Therefore, a Web-based GeoMeeting system has been launched to handle and share real-time data, support cooperative meeting sessions at regular intervals, and provide a set of tools like point that helps to recognize park areas and unrevealed base map information about the infrastructure. Video- or audio-based map sharing and Geo-teleconference have been made easy for decision makers to make a decision quickly. Every sort of editing, made by presenter, associated to park marking, will be displayed to all users simultaneously for collaborative decision-making. The presenter can spot a place, add comments, and interpret information related to: park access analysis at city level, complete information and data about every city park, identifying the areas where need of parks is most essential, and recognizing which improvements would provide the greatest advantage to local park system. This sort of

Data elements are valuable for evaluating the usability as well as estimating the degree of public input during the process of participatory planning and effective decision-making. A Web-based feedback component was developed to evaluate and measure the usability aspects collected using pre-post questionnaires and Web analytic tools, i.e., TeamViewer, Google Analytics, and Session Cam. (3) Finally, the users were asked to fill out a post-questionnaire comprised of queries related to usefulness, ease of use or interactivity of using GeoMeeting

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Co-PPGIS, a Web-based geospatially enabled conferencing system, assists a real-time participation to facilitate and improve public participation for collaborative decision-making which will bring fundamentally more understandability in any system. This Web system provides real-time amalgamation of data from different sources through Web map services, such as APIs, and supports the amalgamation of local knowledge expressed by meeting participants. In order to aid the Co-PPGIS synchronous participation procedure, which is originally developed and designed to resolve the issues associated with the municipality planning and management, GeoMeeting Prototype is implemented as a proof of concept. GeoMeeting Prototype framework facilitates any sort of e-governance, management, and emergency scenarios (e.g., municipal planning, forest management, urban sprawl, lands state, crime mapping, disaster response, etc.) related to collaborative decision-making and provides an effective, valid, and see-through system in which all the discussion and recommendations between authorities/participants are conserved in the database and can be viewed anytime to know the irresponsibility of even a common person to some authority handling the entire situation. The GeoMeeting is an evolution of map sharing component built previously based on Collaborative PPGIS framework which accommodate effective and better decision-making

The infrastructure of GeoMeeting was established on several components-based services such as Login Management, Floor Control, Map sharing, Android, feature-based chat, feature popup service, Geometry and Multimedia Sharing feature Services, Bookmark, and Live Video Services. Registered users can have direct access to GeoMeeting through login authentication. The component also includes chat facility, drawing specific location (point, line, and polygon/area); base layer switcher for better understanding of map and search any area of interest; synchronously. These components-based services make it an effective and efficient platform for information/data sharing. Previously, teleconferencing was the only medium used during emergency management planning, but the drawback for teleconferencing was the absence of any geo-collaborative console, i.e., map sharing. GeoMeeting provides realtime geo-collaboration; which improves accuracy and efficiency as well as saves cost and time of the emergency management organization. Consequently, this Co-PPGIS framework-based GeoMeeting provides an interactive interface to have Geo-enabled collaborative participatory

discussion platform among decision-making authorities and common people.

interfaces in order to collect feedback concerning the usability of the system.

through its innovative map sharing component technology.

**8. Concluding remarks**

**Figure 12.** GeoMeeting for municipality parks mapping.

information is accumulated in a database and can be easily recovered. **Figure 12** represents the identified park areas.

Through GIS land use survey techniques, parks are easily determined. In this scenario, android-based techniques are used for collection of park points'. As parks can be easily inspected in high resolution imagery, therefore, high-resolution satellite imagery is used for discussion as a base map. GeoMeeting environment offers the platform for stakeholders to share and execute their views related to area's enhancement by offering better utilities, facilities, and living standards to residents.
