Abstract—Aiming to improve population life quality of the Brazilian Federal District, and using concepts of Information Architecture and Geoinformation, this research presents a mobile application with objective of facilitating practice of denouncing damages to the public patrimony, locating geographically and cataloging this damage so that public sector is notified and population perceives changes and actions taken by the government. Mobile platforms are becoming other channels through which citizens can report information in real time. Federal District currently has 3 million inhabitants and 5.8 thousand km², and it is common to see areas without sanitation, without asphalts and with damages to public patrimony such as fallen poles, squares vandalized, abandoned buildings, among others. By means of geolocation and damage mapping, Volunteered Geographic Information and this mobile application allows citizen to make complaints and ask government to do maintenance, being a new tool to help environment and human being life. Index Terms—Volunteered geographic information, geoinformation, mobile application, public patrimony. I. INTRODUCTION In cities there are problems related to public patrimony, be it lack of sanitation, neglect or even problems caused by accidents or natural disasters, characterizing as damage to urban public patrimony everything that damages, denigrates, and in extreme cases, destroy some good inside of urban area [1]. The Federal District is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It is located in the Center-West Region, being the smallest Brazilian federal unit and the only one that has no municipalities; it is divided into 31 administrative regions, totaling an area of 5.8 thousand km². See its map in Fig. 1. In its territory, is located the federal capital of Brazil, Brasília, that is also the seat of the government of the Federal District (FD). Today, in this region, complaints of damages in public patrimony are made in a precarious way, by means of telephone calls, sending of e-mails or personally in offices of public sector. Disorders are common everywhere, whether they are broken sidewalks, fallen poles, knocked down walls or others. In order to provide a service so that these complaints reach competent agencies quickly, improving the efficiency to resolve them and prioritizing most serious problems, the research group devised a mobile application, so that the citizen can make complaints, and send them directly to a database, where the competent bodies can identify and the citizen can follow existing complaints as well as follow the solution of your complaint. Manuscript received October 29, 2017; revised January 22, 2018. Patricia Carvalho is with Escola Fiocruz de Governo, Brazil (e-mail: patriciagcarvalho@yahoo.com.br). Some literatures present other systems of help in controlling and solving problems, such as Colab.re [2], which provides its services in Rio de Janeiro City and has already been tested by its citizen. It was proposed a system development that allows denouncing damages in public patrimony, through a mobile application, and locating them so that people are aware of their community’s problems. Application also presents a general list of complaints that can be seen by competent authorities and citizen. Reference [3] presents a research that evaluates the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for the American selected real cases: “Field Photo,” “CoCoRaHS,” “OakMapper,” “What’s Invasive!”, “Leafsnap,” “U.S. Green Infrastructure Reporter”, and “Nebraska Wetlands”. Based on these case studies, the results indicate that active, loyal and committed users are key to ensuring the success of citizen science projects. Online and off-line activities should be integrated to promote the effectiveness of public engagement in environmental management. In Information Science, the essence of information is that it should be registered and treated to allow a future recovery [4]. According to [5] Information Organization occurs in an information system consisting of interrelated components to collect, to process and to disseminate information, under of a management of a commissionaire, appearing with a feedback mechanism to assist review, improvement and adaptation to the environment in which it operates. Information Science, especially Information Organization line, can support discussions about process of representing Geoinformation. Construction of Geoinformation demonstrates that the greater the number of modes involved in process of geoinformation representation, the less uncertainty involved in approximation with its real meaning and, mainly, with the concept of geographic phenomenon analyzed [6]. Some researchers care about geocommunication and information design, and seek how decide to transmit content A or content B to another person on a systematic and controlled basis [7]. There were apparently no existing theories, models etc. capable of identifying and choosing the content of information in systematic and controlled fashion with a view to achieving geo-communication – with a view to achieving agreement regarding issues and their location. This application was developed using Java programming languages [8], for development was used NetBeans IDE [9], web pages were builded using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML [10], [11]; used Scrum development technique [12], the operating system chosen was Android System [13], using Android Studios [14], [15] and chosen database was MYSQL [16]. Google Maps system allows, through its Application Application with Geoinformation for Control of Damage in Public Property Patricia G. Carvalho, Claudio G. Bernardo, Claudio G. Duque, Otavio M. Fiedein, and Vitor B. Bueno International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 1, February 2018 13 DOI: 10.7763/IJCTE.2018.V10.1192 15