Introduction

Welcome to the TOSCA-2.0 wiki!

The TOSCA (Toolkit for Open and Sustainable City Planning and Analysis) has been developed in cooperation between the Digital City Science of the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and piloted in India, Ecuador and Palestine with local partners. Further partners are the municipal administrations, local tech companies, and universities across the different locations. It is an open-source tool and the software for this project is based entirely on open-source components.

The Toolkit for Open and Sustainable City Planning and Analysis is a web-based geographic information system (GIS) for multi-touch tables that is optimised for use by non-GIS experts. It supports integrated and participatory urban planning processes, fostering dialogue between governments and citizens and exchange of knowledge and data between government departments. ​ The main functionality of the Toolkit for Open and Sustainable City Planning and Analysis is to visualise and analyse complex urban data, jointly among local practitioners and with citizens. The tool is intended to help cities in urban planning processes such as Master Planning, citizen participation and urban flooding. The project is unique as it provides easy-to-use technology that enables urban stakeholders to make decisions in a highly participative manner with spatial data and develop the tool incrementally in the future, due to the open-source nature of the tool.

While TOSCA has been in development since 2019, we have now rebuilt TOSCA from scratch using newer and more advanced open-source components. This Wiki will help guide you on how to use the tool, how to develop the tool and where to access more resources of the tool!