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Geo-visual analytics for urban design in the context of future internet

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The internet, where much of the information has reference to location, together with the latest generation of geographical web services, represent a very large information space that can be used for planning and design. The wealth of information accessible, which requires new forms of interaction and management of the data available, has brought in recent year to the growth of the domain of visual analytics. In addition, the availability of 3D geobrowsers provides the technological means for interactive 3D environments which can be used to access large-scale geographical information. This technological scenario is paving the way to 3D web-based, geo-visual analytics tools for land planning and urban design tools. This paper illustrates the results of a research effort which has brought to the development of an interactive geo-visual analytics platform for land planning and urban design which makes use of procedural modelling algorithms.

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  1. Fondazione Graphitech, via alla Cascata 56/C, Trento, Italy

    Raffaele De Amicis, Giuseppe Conti, Bruno Simões, Nicolò Tosi & Stefano Piffer

  2. D.P.C.E. Dipartimento di Progetto e Costruzione Edilizia, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Palermo, Italy

    Raimondo Lattuca & Giuseppe Pellitteri

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De Amicis, R., Conti, G., Simões, B. et al. Geo-visual analytics for urban design in the context of future internet. Int J Interact Des Manuf 3, 55–63 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-009-0060-1

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