(Co-)development of an open-data-based tool to perform preliminary environmental analyses at district scale in different European countries
Bing-Shiuan Tsai, Lars Huizer, Michele Giampaolo, Sérénic Monté, Sicong Gong
Royal Haskoning DHV has developed an extension tool on Rhino/Grasshopper to facilitate their architects and engineers to retrieve the target datasets necessary for environmental analysis on the built environment. The tool allows users to directly import the most up-to-date geodata in Rhino, bypassing its traditional cumbersome acquisition through different portals and APIs. Although this tool works well in the Netherlands, as the required geodata is open and of high quality, it is still unsupported in other countries in which the company operates. In order to enhance the applicability of the tool, the project will first focus on seeking the corresponding local datasets that are necessary to offer the current function. And secondly how to adapt them from the local APIs to the extension tool. Thus comes the project title:(Co-)development of an open-data-based tool to perform preliminary environmental analysis at district scale in different European countries.