[starlogo-users] StarLogo & GIS

[colin combe]

--- Jim Tobias <tobias at inclusive.com> wrote:
> I
> would like to be able to load a map with traffic
> data, then run a StarLogo
> simulation on various changes to traffic patterns,
> especially the effects of
> new developments under consideration by zoning
> authorities.

In my humble opinion, this is beyond what starlogo is
designed to do... if you really want to deal with real
world data and road networks you should start with the
GIS tool you intend to use and write your own code to
interact with this which describes the behaviour of
the  agents/vehicles. Trying to represent road
networks in a system which is fundamentally incapable
of representing vector data is going to be
frustrating. On the other hand, geotools
(www.geotools.org) is an open-source java GIS toolkit
which includes modules for dealing with networks of
roads or rivers, again IMHO, most of the important
functionality of starlogo can be represented with a
few java classes. I know that that people have
combined earlier versioins of geotools with agent
based modelling. 

My understanding is that Starlogo is intended as an 
educational tool, rather than a system for modeling
real world situations.

ok, thats my 2 cents,
colin    



> 
> As I see it, a weakness of StarLogo is not being
> able to superimpose the
> models on top of high-res images.  For example, I'd
> like to load a GIS map,
> and assign patches only to the places where roads
> were.  I would just like
> to make things happen on the roads, not the land in
> between.  Am I missing
> something?  
> 
> *****
> Jim Tobias
> Inclusive Technologies
> tobias at inclusive.com
> 732.441.0831 v/tty
> www.inclusive.com
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: starlogo-users-bounces at media.mit.edu 
> > [mailto:starlogo-users-bounces at media.mit.edu] On
> Behalf Of 
> > John Thomson
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:17 PM
> > To: starlogo-users at media.mit.edu
> > Subject: [starlogo-users] StarLogo & GIS
> > 
> > 
> > Hi, All
> > 
> > Andrew said I should ask on this list, so I will. 
> I'd
> > like to know who is using StarLogo with a GIS (and
> > with remote sensing data, if possible), what
> you're
> > doing, and how you're doing it.  I'm a Geography
> grad
> > student at San Jose State University, and I'm
> > interested in learning how to use StarLogo with a
> GIS.
> >  If I understood Andrew's repsonse, StarLogo is
> pretty
> > much limited to working with raster data.  In that
> > case, how does one work with "mixed pixels"?  And,
> has
> > anyone "rasterized" vector data in order to make
> it
> > work with StarLogo?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > John Thomson
> > 1thomson at sbcglobal.net
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