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Its true power lies in the **data history** it builds over time. This living memory transforms the digital twin into a strategic tool, enabling municipalities to better understand the evolution of their territory and make decisions based on facts. #### 🔧 Asset Monitoring and Maintenance - Detect changes: a tree cut down, a leaning pole, or a new piece of equipment installed. - Track degradation: fading road markings, paint disappearing on a fire hydrant, worn sidewalks. - Monitor vegetation growth: measure canopy expansion and plan for urban forestry. #### 📋 Supporting Decision-Making - Validate or invalidate a citizen complaint by checking the exact condition at a specific date. - Document disputes with reliable visual and geospatial evidence. - Verify that works have been carried out: resurfacing, pruning, road maintenance. #### 📊 Analysis and Planning - Identify areas affected by freeze–thaw cycles to better target interventions. - Anticipate budget needs by tracking infrastructure degradation over time. - Prioritize investments based on factual and objective data. #### ⚜️ Jakarto: Québec’s Digital Memory Since 2021, **Jakarto has been continuously mapping Québec**. With over **140,000 km of roads captured** and historical coverage across **more than 190 cities and boroughs**, we are building the digital treasure of municipalities. This visual and geospatial memory, regularly updated, provides cities with a unique advantage to optimize asset management, improve planning, and build a more sustainable future. #### 🏙️ A Memory to Build the Future Tomorrow, cities will not only have a digital twin, but a true **urban memory**. A treasure of data that will transform municipal management into a data-driven science, serving smarter, more resilient, and more transparent communities.   #### 💡 Don’t Let Your City Lose Its Memory! 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Its true power lies in the data history it builds over time. This living memory transforms the digital twin into a strategic tool, enabling municipalities to better understand the evolution of their territory and make decisions based on facts. 🔧 Asset Monitoring and Maintenance Detect changes: a tree cut down, a leaning pole, or a new piece of equipment installed. Track degradation: fading road markings, paint disappearing on a fire hydrant, worn sidewalks. Monitor vegetation growth: measure canopy expansion and plan for urban forestry. 📋 Supporting Decision-Making Validate or invalidate a citizen complaint by checking the exact condition at a specific date. Document disputes with reliable visual and geospatial evidence. Verify that works have been carried out: resurfacing, pruning, road maintenance. 📊 Analysis and Planning Identify areas affected by freeze–thaw cycles to better target interventions. Anticipate budget needs by tracking infrastructure degradation over time. Prioritize investments based on factual and objective data. ⚜️ Jakarto: Québec’s Digital Memory Since 2021, Jakarto has been continuously mapping Québec. With over 140,000 km of roads captured and historical coverage across more than 190 cities and boroughs, we are building the digital treasure of municipalities. This visual and geospatial memory, regularly updated, provides cities with a unique advantage to optimize asset management, improve planning, and build a more sustainable future. 🏙️ A Memory to Build the Future Tomorrow, cities will not only have a digital twin, but a true urban memory. A treasure of data that will transform municipal management into a data-driven science, serving smarter, more resilient, and more transparent communities. 💡 Don’t Let Your City Lose Its Memory! 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