We are the Centre of Urban Information Quito, CIUQ! Our purpose is to provide comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date georeferenced information to support and improve decision-making for urban sustainability and social equity. With this purpose we also promote collaborative research on topics that generate a more humane and resilient city.
Through our geoportal, we communicate relevant information about our city and territory in a GIS environment at different special scales. Our intended audience includes planners in government and non-government organizations, the private sector, the higher education sector and the wider urban community.
Explore our geoportal and contact our team for information needs assessment to address your planning or research project objectives and develop your own information products. The CIUQ provides you friendly tools to do it so!
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DISCOVER THE CIUQ
An easy and friendly geoportal that allows you to select data from predefined or customized zones, combine it, perform advanced queries and generate your own personalized data.
• Select a study area. • Search for an indicator. • Perform advanced queries combining maps. • Download results as maps, tables or bar graphs.
Explore geographical information in an interactive way: data, services, businesses, indicators, public content, community research and much more. Combine all this information to get new data. You can download:
CONSULTANCY SERVICES: We provide solutions which integrate specialized professional services, technology and the latest information management methodologies applied in real estate, construction, urban planning or others. Some of the consultancy services we offer are: - Geomarketing - Real estate intelligence. - Mobility assessment (Traffic CIUQ). - Survey / generation of geo-referenced data (Spot CIUQ - Polygon CIUQ) And much more!
DATABASES: We generate, process and analyze databsets of our own or datasets provided by our clients to enhance project design and implementation, businesses, and sales or to strengthen client portfolio. We offer: - Certified Project Databases. - Data Analytics.
The CIUQ can be adapted to suit your needs and objectives!
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
We establish partnerships with academia, independent researchers and the wider urban community, to carry out research on a broad variety of urban issues.
If you have a project you would like to showcase on our geo-portal or if you want to collaborate with us, contact us!
RESEARCH ARTICLES
We support universities in developing graduate and undergraduate thesis projects. Here, you will find research articles produced by the CIUQ team in conjunction with students from various Ecuadorian universities on urban issues.
URBAN STUDIES
The Quito Urban Information Center supports partner universities by developing thesis projects for both undergraduate and graduate students. In this section, you will find articles that were collaboratively developed between CIUQ and students from various universities, as a contribution to scientific research
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GEOCIUQ the geoportal that collects, analyzes and maps the information of Quito