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Saturday, May 20, 2023

Disaggregation Dilemma - Part 2...(from static land-use color codes to something like OSM features indexing)

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Information density at lowest levels of disagregation Let us continue the discussion on information loss and data aggregation by comparing t...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Disaggregation dilemma - Part 1...(Of GIS based PDFs and Water Soaked Blue-prints)

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What is wrong with our land-use plans ? Well...nothing. Except, perhaps, the fact that they belong to an earlier epoch of technological deve...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

The Data exists...right under our Mouses !

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The capital irony It is perhaps a capital irony of our times that precisely at the time when computers are more powerful and affordable than...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

Indian Space Assets and Urban Planning

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Smart in Space...Clueless on Land As India's capabilities in the field of space technologies increase continuously, the gap between the ...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

You cannot "find" data, if you cannot recognise it

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I have written in earlier blogs about the trouble with GIGO (Garbage-In-Garbage-Out), which basically means that if the data that goes into...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Planning and the Complexity Conundrum

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Implementing at the cost of Planning A characteristic feature of large urban development schemes in India is that they are heavily implement...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Regarding farcical flirting...and GIS based master plans

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Earlier today, I wrote the following on my linkedin status - GIS based Master Plans...it's a bit like saying pen based novels...or camer...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Solving the "land" variable in land-titling equations (and some more on tackling complex urban problems)

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My previous blogs have stressed the importance of operational parameters of large and complex urban development projects and how their imple...