GIS Use in Planning

Does anyone know of any resources around I can check into to learn
some methods?
thanks

jeff.fruhwirth@mac.com wrote:
visit the NCGIA (www.ncgia.ucsb.edu) web site and explore their project
work: this will lead you to several sets of papers describing GIS
methodologies in planning. Another starting point should probably be
volume two of the 'Big Book' (Principles of Geographic Information
Systems, edited by Longley, Maguire, Goodchild and Rhind - published by
Wiley), which has several relevant chapters.

Review the Environment and Planning series of journals - especially E&P
'b', which has this as a primary focus. See also the International
Journal of Geographic Information Science (IJGISc), Transactions in GIS
and Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS) - three more
journals which carry relevant work.

Lastly, try a google search on 'GIS planning' - you may wish to refine
that to cover specific aspects of planning - eg urban, rural, transport,
etc. You will get thousands of 'hits' and it will be worthwhile
reviewing the pages / papers / books identified in the first five or so
pages of google results.

Several of the GIS Vendors have publications focused on using their
products for planning applications ... it would likely be better to have
reviewed some of the independent literature before diving into these,
however, as this will give you a broader understanding of what it is about.

Peter

On Mar 28, 7:25 am, jeff.fruhwi...@mac.com wrote:

GIS has tons of applications in planning. Urban planing,
transportation planning, disaster mitigation etc. I have written about
few of these applications in detail. Have a look at these blog posts:

http://gisindia.blogspot.com/2007/02/housing-and-transportation-planning.html
http://gisindia.blogspot.com/2006/12/indias-tsunami-warming-system-combining.html
http://gisindia.blogspot.com/2007/01/airports-and-gis.html

Also check out ESRI's whitepaper on GIS and planning
http://www.esri.com/industries/planning/index.html

-Ujaval Gandhi
http://gisindia.blogspot.com

There are quite a few slideshows and videos of GIS in action for planning
related applications at www.communityviz.com

MK

On Mar 27, 8:25 pm, jeff.fruhwi...@mac.com wrote:

Thanks Everyone!