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About CommunityViz®
 
CommunityViz® is a GIS decision support tool for planning and resource management.  
 
CommunityViz tools enable two and three dimensional GIS mapping combined with business graphics, embedded formulas and geospatial routines with variable assumptions, and a powerful suite of reporting and analysis tools.  This software makes GIS dynamic, and allows users to explore many alternative scenarios and explore planning decisions in new and innovative ways.  CommunityViz is scalable, Geodata has applied it to a range of geographic areas from multiple states to small project areas.  The project examples shown as links on this page provide examples and case studies of the applications we have developed.
 
Component modules allow alternative community build out, calculations of infrastructure costs, spreading development over time and geographic space, dynamic resource allocation, optimization of development and decision support including optimization among competing uses and resources.  Sketch tools and built in assumptions allow users with limited GIS skills to use the software much like a spatial spreadsheet without extensive training.  Data can be viewed in two dimensional maps, or viewed as photo-realistic scenes in three dimensions using ESRI 3D software, Google Earth, or SiteBuilder.

 

ComunityViz is an extension to ArcGIS® by Environmental Systems Research Institute ESRI, the world leader in GIS software.  CommunityViz was developed by the Orton Family Foundation, and is supported and distributed by Placeways, LLC.