Zusammenfassung
Summary
As particularly metropolitan areas make great demands on space and resources, resulting conflicts are highly likely. In order to face the following challenges in an intelligent manner, newly developed approaches have to be innovative and flexible. Data, information and knowledge play a significant role in this context. Since spatial relations are immanent in almost all problems, geoinformation is essential for decision making but remains often inadequately utilised. In Stuttgart the potential of geoinformation is to be displayed and promoted by opening the great internal data inventory and by increasing support for mobile applications. A substantial component for that is the extensive web application Stuttgart Maps which is provided at www.stuttgart.de/maps.