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Welcome to Malta (TOURISMO)

Welcome to the Malta on Snap4City.

The Golden Bay, located on the northwest coast of Malta within the Mellieħa and Mġarr localities, is renowned for its stunning natural landscapes and rich biodiversity. This area, known as Rdumijiet ta’ Malta: Ramla tal-Mixquqa, spans approximately 33 hectares and includes diverse environments such as clay slopes, beaches, karstland, boulder screes, and agricultural land. Protected under the Natura 2000 management plans since 2017, Golden Bay aims to conserve its unique ecological characteristics.

The area's natural features make it a popular destination, particularly during the summer months when tourists flock to its sandy beaches, such as the picturesque Ramla tal-Mixquqa and the adjacent Ramla ta Ghajn Tuffieħa. Despite its popularity, Golden Bay faces challenges such as seasonality, overcapacity tourism streams, excessive construction, waste generation, resource depletion, desertification, erosion, and biodiversity loss.

The following dashboards are available.

 

 

The main functionalities of those dashboards are described below.

The main dashboard TOURISMO Malta is divided in three main areas:

  • A selector on the left that allows to activate/deactivate the visualization of data on the map
  • The map representing the geographic area
  • The widget on the bottom part, below the map, with a single content showing the last value of a selected data, and a time trend widget representing the temporal data in a particular time period.

The selector allows to shown/hide the following data represented as pins on the Map or activating specific advanced functionalities:

  • Open Weathers: activate/deactivate the pins on the map representing the geographical position of the open weather sensors measuring weather data. By clicking the pin on the map a pop up is shown representing all the data measured by the sensor (i.e. air temperature, air pressure, air humidity, etc.).
    • For each of the variable shown in the pop up in the column “Description”, it is possible to click on specific buttons (Last value, last 4 hours, last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days, etc.) to see respectively the last value and the historical data represented in the widgets below the map.
  • Sea Conditions: activate/deactivate the pins on the map representing the geographical position of the open weather data representing sea conditions. By clicking the pin on the map a pop up is shown representing all the data measured (i.e. wave direction, wave height, wind wave direction and height, etc.).
    • For each of the variable shown in the pop up in the column “Description”, it is possible to click on specific buttons (Last value, last 4 hours, last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days, etc.) to see respectively the last value and the historical data represented in the widgets below the map.
  • Air pollution: activate/deactivate the pins on the map representing the geographical position of the open weather sensors measuring air pollution. By clicking the pin on the map a pop up is shown representing all the data measured by the sensor (i.e. CO, PM10, PM2.5, NO, NO2, etc.).
    • For each of the variable shown on the pop up in the column “Description”, it is possible to click on specific buttons (Last value, last 4 hours, last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days, etc.) to see respectively the last value and the historical data represented in the widgets below the map.
  • UV Index forecasts: showing data regarding UV index of the day and the forecast for the next for days;
  • People Counter: number of people entering and exiting in the area;
  • Vehicle Counter: number of vehicles entering and exiting in the area. Different vehicles are monitored: bike, bus, car, truck, and also human;
  • Crowd Flow Monitoring: people flow monitoring via sniffers. This data are used for the generation of Origin Destination Matrices;
  • Hourly OD: Origin-Destination Matrices generated every hour;
  • Daily OD: Origin-Destination Matrices generated every day;

Hourly OD and Daily OD open a tab on the top right corner of the map with some setting and control to:

  • Switch the time period between week to months and viceversa;
  • Switch the data between inflow and outflow;
  • Modify the opacity of the ODM
  • Move back and forward changing the date of the data to be shown.

In the ODM, the blue area represents the area of interest that has been selected. The coloured areas represent the inflow/outflow data to/from the selected area in percentage. The color of the areas are represented according to the colormap shown on bottom left in the map.

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Project kind: Interreg Euro-MED, cofounded by the European Union

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