The final version of this free software can provide geographic information to public managers of many Brazilian cities, a computational tool to meet their needs for policy planning in areas like education and health.

Center for Metropolitan Studies and INPE launches software for planning of social policies that allows the analysis of georeferenced data in urban spaces. Program can be downloaded free on the Internet.

Although there is no more space to build, the population in these sites has increased. Population growth in the slums was 660% greater in SP between 2000 and 2007, but the total area they occupy in the city decreased.