The utilization of geospatial data and services for a wide range of uses has seen a steady growth in recent years. Recently planners and administrators have indicated that the available spatial data do not suffice the needs of planning at micro level. Based on the felt need, a study has been taken up to assess the capability of crowd sourcing to capture GI by authorities on public assets and community resources to enrich and augment the spatial content of the data. Crowd sourcing through authorised sources enables authoritative data available at micro level in a short span of time at nominal cost. Based on the experience gained in exploring the concept of crowd sourcing in Gram Panchayaths coming under Bangalore Rural District and Gulbarga District, the council has taken up few more Gram Panchayath for studying the ease at which these technologies can be used for collecting and collating information on infrastructure and resources in short span of time.

Mobile application developed on android platform provided accepted spatial accuracy. The council intends to develop mobile apps that can be used on multiple platforms. The earlier exercise has demonstrated that capturing of GI on public assets by authorities leads to ownership and accountability apart from being a speedy and economical. This method is being proposed for adoption on a wider scale to cover large number of such micro administrative units. Estimated cost of capturing public assets for entire state is expected to be around Rs. 16 crores.