Spatial plan
What is a spatial plan
A spatial plan is a design which focuses on the landscape, environment, routing, public and private space, buildings forms and more. This design can be for an urban area in where it is called urban planning or for a more rural area. Spatial plans are created by urban designers or landscape architects and are in various scales.
Requirements on a spatial plan
The Tygron Engine can be used for importing spatial plans in the Engine to reevaluate certain design measures in a plan, for example if the parking standard is feasible in a plan. Before importing a spatial plan in the Engine, remember why you would want to import the plan. The level of detail in the Engine is quite large, thus if the plan is on a very small scale, the effect might not be visible in the Engine. Also, sometimes it may be better to use placeholders for the buildings, to emphasize that the design is in an early stage. Most of the spatial plans on a smaller scale are being drawn in a AutoCAD. Therefore, below are some steps provided to import a plan as a AutoCAD file (.dwg) to a GeoJSON for importing in the Engine. In principle every spatial plan can be imported, as long as the original format can be converted to a GeoJSON.
How to insert a spatial plan to the Engine
- Save the AutoCAD file (.dwg) in AutoCAD as a .dxf
- Open the .dxf in a GIS, for example in QGIS
- Choose the right coordinate system when QGIS prompts the user
- Save the line layer as a GeoJSON.
- Import the file with the Data wizard