[starlogo-users] StarLogo & GIS

[William Lawless]

for further info on physics of traffic flow, see the back page of aps 
news, april 2004, p. 8 for an article by craig davis and a brief 
overview of the literature with pictures; regards, bill



On Jun 10, 2004, at 9:27 AM, colin combe wrote:

> --- 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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