GeoDesign Knowledge Portal

What If?

What if? can be used with available GIS data to prepare long-term land use, population, and employment projections for block groups, census tracts, and user-defined areas such as political jurisdictions and traffic analysis zones. It allows users quickly and easily to determine the impacts of alternative policies for controlling urban growth, preserving agricultural land, or expanding public infrastructure in easy-to-understand maps and tables.

Output Type

Documents and list of publications are available on the web site: http://www.whatifinc.biz/What%20if%20publications.pdf

Analysis Unit

http://www.whatifinc.biz/ (No Longer Available)

Implementation Notes

Agriculture

Land Use Planning

Transportation Planning

Urban Planning

Zoning

Description

Alternative Evaluation

Name

Land Use Allocation

Management Process Modeling

Socioeconomic System Modeling

Development Status

Domain Knowledge Process Model Development

Evaluation Criteria Specification

Impact Analysis

Rank Alternatives

Scenario Simulation And Comparison

Specify Criterion Weight

Stakeholder Engagement

Visualization

Decision Process Activity Types Served

What-If Analysis

Systems Functional Components

Collaboration Support

Data Management

GIS Analysis Integration

GIS Display Integration

Report Generation

Scenario Management And Comparison

User Interface

Visualization

Decision Process Activity Types Served

Biophysical Process

Economic Process

Management Process

Parent Categories

Map

Map Image

Table

Glossary Display Property

All (User Defined Analysis Extent)

Regional Extent

Subregional Extent

Contact Person

All (User Defined Unit Of Observation)

Subregion

Planning And Decision Process Phases/Steps Served

true

Decision Problem Types Targeted

true

Planning And Decision Process Phases/Steps Served

true

Planning And Decision Process Phases/Steps Served

Windows 2000

Windows 95/98

Windows NT

Windows XP

Academic Licensing Available

Arcgis

Platform

ArcGIS/ArcView polygon coverages or shapefiles attributed with natural and man-made features and additional commercially available population, housing, and employment data.

Last Updated

General Understanding Of Issues

Accepts Data Of Process Types

Basic Computer Skills

Platform

true

Planning And Decision Process Phases/Steps Served

true

Planning And Decision Process Phases/Steps Served

$500-3000

<$500

Systems Functional Components

Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS)

Planning And Decision Process Phases/Steps Served

true

Supports Analysis Of Interdisciplinary Interactions

Regularly Distributed

Source Of Description

What If?, Inc.

Accepts Data Of Process Types

Richard E. Klosterman

Analysis Extent

Software Tools And Models - All

Spatial Decision Support Systems

Output Type

See What if? web site.

Cost

4/25/2011

Online Download Available

Alternative Ranking, Decision Making

Collaboration And Participation

Condition Analysis And Assessment

Decision Alternatives Generation, Scenario Simulation

Domain Knowledge Modeling

Visualization

Parent Categories

Evaluative Models

Simulation Models

Analysis Extent

Spatial Decision Support Systems

Cost

Development Process

Graphical Ontology Browser

  • Click on a node to jump to the content of that node
  • Pan to see the rest of the graph
  • Scroll the mousewheel up and down to zoom in and out
  • Rearrange the nodes in the graph by dragging a node to a different position

References

IntroductionGeodesign Problem TypesPlanning/Decision ContextPlanning And Spatial Decision ProcessMethods And Techniques
methods and techniques; methodology
TechnologyData And Domain KnowledgePeople And ParticipationGeodesign Resources