1. 4BUSINESS
WHICH CHALLENGES LED TO THE IDEA OF CONTACT
PLAN 4 BUSINESS? PLAN
A service platform for aggregation, processing and analysis of urban and regional planning data
Urban and regional planning data sets are not Would you like to collaborate with
aggregated so far. Thus it is very difficult to plan 4 business? Are you interested in further
use them for any other purpose than for details? Do you have questions on what we do?
printing or simple publishing by the authori- We are happy to get in contact with you.
ties that created them. Performing time series
plan 4 business Consortium
or comparative analyses on these data sets is
not yet possible. c/o Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD
Spatial Information Management
The two main challenges that have so far
Dr. Joachim Rix
hindered usage of planning data are:
Fraunhoferstrasse 5
the required integration and harmonisation, 64283 Darmstadt
which need to be highly automated, Germany
Phone: +49 6151 155 420
the need for an ICT system that can effici- Fax: +49 6151 155 444
ently answer complex queries over the coordinator@plan4business.eu
diverse and complex planning data sets.
www.plan4business.eu
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2. WHAT DOES PLAN 4 BUSINESS OFFER? WHO BENEFITS FROM PLAN 4 BUSINESS? GET INVOLVED!
plan 4 business develops a platform that offers: The platform serves data providers, data curators, Interested in plan4business? Register for the
who perform integration and quality assurance, newsletter at www.plan4business.eu!
Full catalogue of planning data and services
clients and the data brokers from private and
regarding the transport infrastructure, regio- Would you like to influence the platform deve-
public sectors.
nal plans, urban plans and zoning plans lopment by adding your requirements? You are
welcome to participate! Take 5 to 15 minutes
Ready-to-use, integrated and harmonised
and fill in the Data Requirements Questionnaire
data
at www.plan4business.eu.
Functions ranging from statistical analysis to
complex trend detection
2D and 3D visualisation services
An API and interactive web front-end
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