HOW TO USE THIS SITE
This site contains a repository of maps, documents, research, and writing about the city of Chennai. Explore the site to learn more about Chennai in general, build maps to get more information on a particular feature of the city or to compare various aspects of the city, look at our in depth research and analysis to learn more about a particular issue of importance for the city, read our blog to see what our team is thinking about, and check on our news and updates section to learn about upcoming events and press coverage.
Our map contains many layers of information about the city, such as about its administrative and political boundaries, about the people who run it, toilets, garbage, demographic information by ward about the city, slums and locations of recent evictions, and much more. To build your own map, click here, to see more information about the data in these layers click here, and to contribute data to an existing layer or to create another layer of information for the map, click here. Viewing multiple layers in the map at the same time can generate interesting insights about the city.
Note: on slow connections, your map may take a few seconds to appear. Please be patient! Clicking on particular features on each layer will give you more information about that feature.
We’ve built two searchable databases in the city of bus routes. One is based on our own fieldwork, which has seventy routes in the city mapped with all their stops. The other is a re-packaging of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation’s data to make it far more user-friendly, and has stage-by-stage data on ALL of the city’s bus routes. Each stage is approximately two kilometers apart. Just click on your origin and your destination to see all the routes connecting the two places!
Blog: The Chennai Kaleidoscope
Our blog provides a glimpse into the work that Transparent Chennai researchers are engaged with on a day to day basis, and provides a forum for residents to discuss important issues. Read and search the blog, and comment on our posts. We invite regular readers of The Chennai Kaleidoscope to contribute posts about the city.
In-depth Research and Analysis
We have collected a great deal of research on select issues of civic importance. Issue areas include slums, sanitation, inclusive planning, solid waste management, road safety, urban governance, and more. Select an issue here and find our research, writing, publications, blogposts, links to relevant government documents in our database, and external resources on the topic.
We have created a searchable database of planning documents, collected by our team members through their research. You can find documents on infrastructure, roads, sanitation, slums, maps, reports, planning documents and much more here by searching by keyword. If you have any interesting documents or reports to share, please contact us.
Come here to find out more about new additions to the map and research content of the site, new additions to the documents database, to see our latest newsletters, and to find out about upcoming events!