Crowdsource Approach for Mapping of Illegal Dumps in the Czech Republic

The paper describes environmental project ZmapujTo.cz which is intended to fight against illegal waste dumps in the Czech Republic with using geographic information systems (GISs). The smartphone/tablet GIS reporting application ZmapujTo has been developed. This free available mobile application enables to report illegal dumps and also overloaded containers of municipal waste. The project ZmapujTo is intended for all people who do not like illegal dumping in their cities, villages, countryside and forests especially they want to do something against bad environmental behaviour of people or businessmen. Users of this mobile GIS application can report an illegal dump quickly and easily thanks using their smartphones/tablets. Therefore, everybody can use interactive public web form to report the illegal dump in the Czech Republic The objective of this project is to contribute to solving the problem of environmental pollution by illegal dumps in the Czech Republic by making available modern, effective and widespread GIS platform for their monitoring.