Browse Content: Tool, mapping

A Geographic Information System (GIS) software program for mapping, measuring, and analyzing the storm water, summer energy savings, carbon storage and sequestration, air quality, and wildlife of urban ecosystems.

“CommunityViz is advanced yet easy-to-use GIS software designed to help people visualize, analyze, and communicate about important community planning decisions.”

UrbanSim is a software-based simulation for urban areas, with tools for examining the interplay between land use, transportation, and policy.

A comprehensive planning concept to address built infrastructure, environmental infrastructure, and economic/social infrastructure in the planning process. By focusing on multiple networks, communities may be planned holistically.

Human Geographic Mapping abandons typical political boundaries and maps areas based on natural elements and human interactions. The process is used to outline boundaries and important features based on social networks and scales.

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.

Community Almanac is a place on the web where communities can share stories about theirs towns. Community Almanac can host photographs, text stories, and videos; it allows users to map and comment on stories, organized into "almanaces" by place.

CommonSights reinvents the traditional paper-based community map for the mobile age.

UMAP is a community mapping tool used to engage youth in social action and neighborhood change by allowing them to influence community needs, including infrastructure, social services, safety, affordable housing and access to recreation.

INDEX is a powerful, interactive GIS-based planning support system that measures existing conditions, evaluates alternative plans, and supports implementation of adopted plans.