Local software: Integrated design and geo-computing workflows for urban design

IF 1.9 4区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

SoftwareX Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-03 DOI:10.1016/j.softx.2025.102457

Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga , Nicholas de Monchaux

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Abstract

While architects and planners routinely rely on Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools, both types of tools are infrastructurally incompatible leading to cumbersome workarounds, lack of adoption in practice, and missed opportunities to incorporate the large-scale geographic insights of GIS with the building-scale precision of CAD into a seamless design process. Local Software (LS) inquires into how bringing together CAD and GIS tools and workflows can lead to more sustainable urban design proposals. The framework introduces Site Packages (SP), a cross-platform information model based on GeoJSON that enables seamless integration between design and analysis tools and a new design methodology that connects large scale modeling with small scale design decisions. LS provides a web interface and open-source plugins for Grasshopper and QGIS, that allow designers to parametrically generate networked urban interventions while evaluating their ecological and social impacts through GIS. Case studies have demonstrated that proposals created with the LS framework can replace 88–96 % of traditional stormwater systems at 50 % lower cost of underground work, while enhancing urban resilience, reducing heat island effects, and providing community benefits.

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本地软件：城市设计的集成设计和地理计算工作流程

虽然建筑师和规划师通常依赖地理空间信息系统（GIS）和计算机辅助设计（CAD）工具，但这两种工具在基础设施上不兼容，导致了繁琐的解决方案，在实践中缺乏采用，并且错过了将GIS的大规模地理见解与CAD的建筑尺度精度结合到无缝设计过程中的机会。本地软件（LS）探讨如何将CAD和GIS工具和工作流程结合起来，从而产生更可持续的城市设计方案。该框架引入了Site Packages (SP)，这是一种基于GeoJSON的跨平台信息模型，可以实现设计和分析工具之间的无缝集成，以及一种将大规模建模与小规模设计决策联系起来的新设计方法。LS为Grasshopper和QGIS提供了一个网络界面和开源插件，允许设计师通过GIS参数化地生成网络城市干预，同时评估其生态和社会影响。案例研究表明，利用LS框架创建的建议可以取代88 - 96%的传统雨水系统，而地下工程成本降低50%，同时增强城市弹性，减少热岛效应，并提供社区效益。

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SoftwareX COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING-

CiteScore

5.50

自引率

2.90%

发文量

184

审稿时长

9 weeks

期刊介绍： SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today''s research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains. SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact. To this end, SoftwareX aims to support publication of research software in such a way that: The software is given a stamp of scientific relevance, and provided with a peer-reviewed recognition of scientific impact; The software developers are given the credits they deserve; The software is citable, allowing traditional metrics of scientific excellence to apply; The academic career paths of software developers are supported rather than hindered; The software is publicly available for inspection, validation, and re-use. Above all, SoftwareX aims to inform researchers about software applications, tools and libraries with a (proven) potential to impact the process of scientific discovery in various domains. The journal is multidisciplinary and accepts submissions from within and across subject domains such as those represented within the broad thematic areas below: Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Medical and Biological Sciences; Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Originating from these broad thematic areas, the journal also welcomes submissions of software that works in cross cutting thematic areas, such as citizen science, cybersecurity, digital economy, energy, global resource stewardship, health and wellbeing, etcetera. SoftwareX specifically aims to accept submissions representing domain-independent software that may impact more than one research domain.