Planning Markup Language: Representing the Meanings of Plans and Regulations

Access to many sources of data and information is essential to supporting the use and making of plans for urban development. This information includes plans and regulations of many different players, both private sector and public agencies. It includes the data inputs and analytical outputs of planning analysis models. In order to take advantage of current information technology, web-based access will be particularly effective. To achieve this kind of wide access will require a reference data model for the contents and meaning of plans and regulations and an implementation of this data model in web compatible form such as XML. This paper presents an initial version of such a data model, use cases that set the scope of such a data model, and the beginnings of an XML implementation, a Planning Markup

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