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An open-source 3D street design and virtual reality application that allows users to directly import their street designs from Streetmix into an interactive 3D web scene. Apart from the community version, it also provides a Pro version with integration with Google Earth and further customization.

Edit streets and intersections, explore the effects through traffic simulation on all modes, and use the resulting visualizations to communicate a proposal. Apache licensed, runs anywhere with OpenStreetMap, and works on the web or as an offline download.

Adobe's collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX, and more. Popular products include Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and others.

Provides access to a class of advanced large language models called Claude designed to provide human-like text responses and engage in conversational interactions.

This platform is a geographic information system (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information maintained by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI).

Enables planners and design professionals to publish living plans and collaborate across teams with a web-based 3D application that supports scenario planning and impact assessment.

A sound-rich, narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into the things we don't think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.

Details the AICP's "Five-Step Approach" for exam preparation and lists resources/materials to help you succeed on the AICP exam.

The American Institute of Certified Planners's (AICP) offical resource repository that provides details on eligibility, registration, and preparation. Important dates for upcoming AICP "Certification Cycles" are also listed.

Comprehensive collection of study materials compiled by APA Florida. APA members can also email Henry Bittaker at the address given for access to recordings of exam prep and practice question study sessions led by him.

APA's Research KnowledgeBase connects APA members to curated collections of topically related resources — including plans, regulations, model codes, guides, articles, reports, and multimedia files. Each collection provides commentary and thematic groupings of resource records with bibliographic information, short descriptions, and links to the resources themselves.

American Planning Association's podcast with interviews and discussions on planning topics going back to 2010.

As part of the Access Across America series the Accessibility Observatory at UMN evaluates multiple modes of transportation accessibility in major U.S. metropolitan areas. Reports are published annually, and select data sets are available through the University of Minnesota's Digital Conservatory.

Maintained by Georgetown's Climate Center, this is an extensive online database and networking site that serves policymakers and others who are working to help communities adapt to climate change.

The American Community Survey (ACS) helps local officials, community leaders, and businesses understand the changes taking place in their communities. It is the premier source for detailed population and housing information for the United States. Additional Information:

An interagency resource intended to help illustrate and document locally led, partnership-driven conservation and restoration work that is underway in communities across America.

Provides shapefiles and raw OSM format for cities around the world, extracted weekly. This is useful if you are looking for data extracts for a single city.

On the BTS Open Data site, browse geospatial data that is part of the BTS National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) product. NTAD is a set of nationwide (United States) geographic databases of public spatial information for transportation facilities and networks; flows of people, goods, vehicles, and craft over the transportation networks; and social, economic, and environmental conditions that affect or are affected by the transportation networks.

Review of the generative AI landscape including tools/utilities.

Open source technology for agriculture, farming, and gardening.

GeoJSON utilities that will make your life easier.

Awesome GIS is a collection of geospatial related sources, including cartographic tools, geoanalysis tools, developer tools, data, conference & communities, news, massive open online course, some amazing map sites, and more.

A curated list of open technology projects to sustain a stable climate, energy supply, and vital natural resources.

A collection of transit data tools and resources.

A well-known provider of location based services and GPS data from cell phones operating in the space since 2000.

Computer vision based platform that helps cities, airports, fleets, and businesses monitor the curb in real time. Enables curbside management policies that increase revenue while making streets less congested, more sustainable, and more equitable.

Provides data and insights to support financial and operational resilience for a changing planet across a variety of climate related hazards.

A commercial real estate information and analytics provider serving the UK, US, and Canada.

Provides high quality land parcels data, providing instant access to detailed property characteristics, sales records, valuation and digital copies of current county assessor documents.

Computer vision based services to quantify events occurring in the built environment affordably and quickly.

The ArcGIS API for Python is a powerful, modern and easy to use Pythonic library to perform GIS visualization and analysis, spatial data management and GIS system administration tasks that can run both interactively, and using scripts. This library enables easy use of Pandas within the ArcGIS platform.

A Python site package that provides a useful and productive way to perform geographic data analysis, data conversion, data management, and map automation with Python.

Widely-used, well documented library for quick design and customization of websites. Additional Information:

Create simple (or advanced) visualizations of data for web and mobile. Additional Information:

A package for pedestrian-scale network-based urban analysis: network analysis, urban morphology, land use, accessibility, and statistical aggregations.

Common patterns and anti-patterns for civic tech and civic applications. Additional Information: Provided by Code for America.

The BLDS data standard is a collaborative effort by civic technology companies, governments and other interested parties to create a shared data specification for building and construction permit data.

The Curb Data Specification provides data specifications for curb regulations alongside a connected event and metrics API intended to help cities manage their curb zone programs and surrounding areas, and measure the utilization and impact.

The CityGML standard defines a conceptual model and exchange format for the representation, storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models. It enables an interdisciplinary common operating platform for civic systems.

An open data specification for curb regulations maintained by SharedStreets. Additional Information:

The Digital Twins Definition Language is the language by which developers can define the language of the entities they expect to use in their topologies.

A chart with links to the diversity of data standards adopted by EPA.