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Photosynth is a free online tool provided by Microsoft that allows you to digitally combine photos and create panoramas or 3D scenes.

GeoImmersive video is a powerful tool for providing realistic views of potential developments and existing sites with the ability to visualize the project's potential impact against the existing conditions.

Outside.In collects news items and information about neighborhoods across the country. A GoogleMaps interface is linked to blogs, news tracks and other information, so that users can search a specific location and see information tied to that place.

This tool allows citizens to assess the walkability of specific streets and their community for how conducive they are to pedestrian activity. It provides a baseline measurement on how walkable areas are and a forum for comments and recommendations.

Visual Preference Surveys (VPS) are tools to help communities establish a common vision of what their localities should look like by asking participants to rate their preference or dislike of selected images of the community.

This community visioning exercise that uses regional maps and Legos to supplement to discussions of planning and growth issues. Lego blocks may represent jobs, housing units, people, or other attributes to help people devise a vision for the future.

Most people remember childhood scavenger hunts, but communities have used the game to build community, identify local assets and character, and sometimes take advantage of new GIS and location-based tools.

Guided Visioning is a process that allows participants to open their minds and create a vision of the future of their community and the necessary steps to manifest it.

A variation of traditional opinion polling, deliberative polling measures subjects’ opinions, but also the reasons for those opinions and their capacity to change.

InfoGames are interactive workbooks that present your content as fun infographics. At the core of these workbooks are small games that display content with the user in mind.