Re: Transferability of Procedures

Jen

There are probably a lot of different tools, some of them more ready to
transfer for others to use. We're generally using a combination of
ArcGIS, Python, and SQL to handle the data preparation tasks, and in
fact are currently working on developing tools to deal with the process
you are describing and other related preparation tasks - supporting the
Puget Sound Regional Council, the Maricopa Association of Governments
and Pima Associatioon of Governments. We will try to generalize these
to make them reusable, and incorporate them in to the release process.

We would also very much welcome contributions by users. If people
volunteer to share their code or tools or documentation, we would be
happy to put in in a user contribution section available for others. It
might also be possible to build on some of those and to generalize them
and incorporate them into the system.

Paul

Jen Duthie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As we set up UrbanSim for Austin, we're trying to keep in mind that all
> of the steps we take should be easily transferable to any MPO. We're
> wondering what steps others are taking to create processes for data
> manipulation that can be easily understood by non-computer programming
> experts.
> For example...
> We have an employment point file with one record for each employment
> location, and UrbanSim requires a jobs table, with one record for each
> job. We first joined the employment point file with our parcel file so
> that we know the land use of each employment and the grid ID. For
> conversion to a jobs table, it's easiest for us to write a program in C
> or some other language, but we're thinking that setting up a way to do
> it in MySQL may be easier for others to use.
> Has anyone else dealt with this issue - not just for conversion of
> employment locations to job records, but for any of the various data
> manipulations that take place?
>
> Thank you,
> Jen
>
> Graduate Research Assistant
> University of Texas, Austin
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Received on Fri May 25 2007 - 17:30:23 PDT