[GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Announcing the release of the Open Source Online What if? planning support system

[Suchith Anand]

This is also great timing as we have now got confirmation of acceptance of "OpenCitySmart - The Open Platform for Smart Cities"  for an interactive poster presentation at the forthcoming Earth Observation Open Science 2.0 workshop http://www.eoscience20.org  in Esrin (Frascati, Italy) on 12-14 Oct 2015 to explore to the new challenges and opportunities for EO research created by the rapid advances in Information and Communications Technologies. These include open tools and software, data-intensive science, virtual research environment, e-infrastructure, citizen science, crowdsourcing, advanced visualization, e-learning and education of the new generation of Data scientists . The conference will present precursor activities in EO Open Science and Innovation and develop a Roadmap preparing for future ESA scientific exploitation activities.

Maria and Patrick will be there to present our Urban Science and City Analytics thematic and we can use this opportunity to promote this AURIN development and build more synergies

Suchith

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From: geoforall-urbanscience-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [geoforall-urbanscience-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Pettit [c.pettit at unsw.edu.au]
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Subject: [GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Announcing the release of the Open Source Online What if? planning support system

Hi All,

I am pleased to let you know that after 3 years in development the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) has released the Open Source Online What if? Planning Support System (http://aurin.org.au/projects/portal-and-infrastructure/what-if/). The Online What If? GIS based Planning Support System is an online open source realisation of Professor Richard Klosterman’s (1999) desktop version of the tool and can be used to create and explore land suitability, land demand and land allocation scenarios for municipality and city scale land use futures. The tool has been developed and tested using data from the City of Perth in Australia and data from the State of Ohio, United States. So with the necessary data inputs it should work anywhere in the world.

There is a cloud based version you can upload your own project or you can download the source code from Github and install your own version (https://github.com/AURIN/online-whatif) . There are instructions on how to prepare your data and setup a new project (http://docs.aurin.org.au/what-if/) .

With the release of this ‘CitySmart’ What if? planning support system I hope we can build a community of practice around it and begin to release the vision of data driven evidenced based decision-making to support sustainable, productive and resilient city planning and development.

References

Pettit, CJ, Klosterman, RE, Delaney, P, Whitehead, AL, Kujala, H, Bromage, A, Nino-Ruiz, M 2015 The Online What if? Planning Support System: A Land Suitability Application in Western Australia, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. Vol 8, Issue 2, pp 93-112

Klosterman, RE 1999, ‘The What if? Collaborative Planning Support System’, Environment and Planning, B: Planning and Design, no. 26, pp. 393-408

Pettit, CJ 2005, ‘Use of a collaborative GIS-based planning support system to assist in formulating a sustainable-development scenario for Hervey Bay, Australia’, Environment and Planning, B: Planning and Design, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 523-546

Pettit, CJ, Klosterman, RE, Nino-Ruiz, M, Widjaja, I, Tomko, M, Sinnott, R, Stimson, R 2013, ‘The Online What if? Planning Support System’, in Planning Support Systems for Sustainable Urban Development, eds S Geertman & J Stillwell, Springer, Berlin.


Regards

Chris


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