Re: development types for gridcells

Development Types are no longer required in UrbanSim. You can use any
geography, and define as many building types as you wish to deal with.
Areas need not be rectangular cells, but could be polygons of any
shape. A buildings table can contain zero to many building records per
record in the unit of geography you choose to use (gridcell, parcel,
zone, etc.), thereby accommodating any mixed uses in your data. You
can look at the downloadable Eugene database for a simple example in
which the database has been modified from a gridcell structure to one
containing gridcells and buildings. The building_types table holds the
typology.

Paul

Adam Rae wrote:
>
> The study area for our urban simulation is quite large, and as such we
> had originally decided to make the size of our gridcells 1 square
> kilometre to save on computing more data than necessary. However, it
> was recently noted by one of my colleagues that there seems to be a
> unique development_type_id for each gridcell in the Eugene data. We
> desire more than one development type for the grid size we are
> currently using, and I was wondering if there might be any way around
> this problem other than reducing the size of our gridcells to about a
> tenth of their current size?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam.
>
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Received on Mon Jul 30 2007 - 12:24:12 PDT