“CommunityViz is advanced yet easy-to-use GIS software designed to help people visualize, analyze, and communicate about important community planning decisions.”
Using the Box City curriculum, participants construct buildings and cities out of boxes to learn about planning and land use or explore what they want for their town.
INDEX is a powerful, interactive GIS-based planning support system that measures existing conditions, evaluates alternative plans, and supports implementation of adopted plans.
Google Earth is the web’s most comprehensive set of maps, images and geographic data with an interface that allows users to zoom into detailed satellite images of nearly every corner of the globe and to layer on their own datasets.
Socialight allows organizations and governments to create their own custom apps and communities around location-based content. Citizens can tag and share photos of local problems; governments can share map-based neighborhood plans, and more.
Design Charrettes are intensive workshops aimed at solving a specific design or planning challenge. These workshops often bring together design professionals, officials, landowners and community members to consider the issue and create a plan.
An online virtual 3-D world, Second Life allows users to create their own “sims” (virtual characters), explore the virtual world, meet and interact with others, buy or rent land, build objects and offer services, and develop relationships.
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.