SimCity for Real - Combining CAD, GIS, and gaming, CommunityViz lets planners and residents see the future in 3D.
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Scenario 360 as an "interactive analysis tool and a decision-making framework" that lets you paint land-use types on a map and instantly see associated socioeconomic and environmental impacts, calculate the development capacity of your land, automatically rate different locations, and view multiple scenarios side by side.
SiteBuilder 3D is described as a tool to create photorealistic, 3D interactive scenes from 2D map data, and it comes with an exclusive library of more than 350 models of houses, buildings, trees, and streetscapes to help you populate your 3D scenes.
By: Kenneth Wong
Full Story: http://www.orton.org/document/docWin ... ormatId=874
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(Many thanks to John Carney, Rocky Mountain Director of Projects for the Orton Family Foundation http://www.orton.org for bringing this new economic development tool to our attention. Russ)
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