By Brian Skeele, on March 15th, 2011
The Quest is on! Ray at Infracycle recommended taking a look at CommunityViz. Coincidently, recently I’ve attended a couple of their CommunityViz’s “Community Matters” webinars….
On capturing customers for successful commercial-
This article about Hershey Pennsylvania’s attempt to revitalize the town, from the ERSI site, has a good discussion on how to figure customer capture using the Huff gravity Model.
I found a video on how to most accurately collect data- the Block Point method wins! on ERSI’s site, but lost the link. Having the critical numbers of residential to make the commercial successful is one of the essential pieces to a walkable lifestyle.
Here’s another interesting piece I’m learning about …APIs Application Programming Interface. Different software programs create the tools to encourage others to adapt into them with their own needs, thus spreading the usage of the original software. So this says to me, I’m looking for software that has APIs that integrate into GIS and Google Earth, or maybe I’m looking for Google Earth APIs???
Hey, whatever it takes to make sustainable real!
I’m thinking of creating another site where this conversation can build…. maybe a more wiki kind of online tool…I don’t have much traffic at this point, but the day will come!!…