Posts Tagged ‘Google Maps’
Urban Spaces is a beta service from Holistic City Software that allows urban designers, architects, developers and planners to search for examples of public spaces of a specific size or shape. For now there seems to be only a limited number of countries and spaces in the database, it could develop to a valuable tool. [...]
WalkScore.com is a website that offers great information about which neighborhood/city is more walkable than the rest (San francisco was #1 and Seattle was #6). It does it as a mashup with Google maps to show you the shops, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. within walking distance and calculates a walkability heatmap. It is available on [...]
Over the next 21 months, 3TIER plans to continue to map the world for wind and solar resources, country by country, based upon a priority order that takes into account such issues as renewable energy policies, availability of renewable energy resource and economic status. Every quarter through 2010, 3TIER will release a series of resource [...]
Once you have drawn a projected solar array on top of the satellite imagery from Google Maps you get a rough estimate on performance and payback of your system based on the drawn area of the array, slope of the roof, location and weather information from the National Renewable Energy Labs. To complete the full [...]
Using a familiar and user-friendly Google Maps interface, the planner allows individuals to choose routes throughout Metro Vancouver based on preferences such as distance, elevation gain, air quality, and areas featuring trees and other vegetation. Users can choose trips that follow city-designated cycle routes only, or trips that include major roads. The web-based planner (www.cyclevancouver.ubc.ca) [...]
