Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
by karaterobot on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @10:45PM
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I was hoping there'd be some report on what they'd learned about the city as a result of modeling it and, presumably, testing some changes. But don't get me wrong, this is awesome anyway.
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Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
by icaruswept on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @11:56PM
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Coming up. I'm implementing some small bits of the COMTRANs plan, as it's politically relevant to our election cycle right now (https://www.transport.gov.lk/web/images/downloads/F-CoMTrans...). It won't be a full implementation - we're a small team, and I want to encourage other people to come on board with their ideas. We do have a reasonable "how we did this" section if you're interested! https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro...
Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
by karaterobot on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @03:21PM
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Many, many years ago (2004?) I was on a NSF research project about participatory GIS, trying to help people (voters) make informed choices about transportation alternatives in a region—which road or rail improvements to make, and how to apportion funds between them. At the time, we dreamed about being able to let people run a simulation of the consequences of their chosen package, but that was definitely not feasible with the technology we had at the time. That's the background for why I'm so envious of what y'all pulled off!
Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines
by icaruswept on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @11:09PM
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That’s very cool! Do you have any papers I can read?
We had a similar experience with the university labs: this professor of transport telling us how he was working on letting people modify land use maps to their liking in the 90s and early 2000s, and wishing they had tools like this.
Hopefully we too will soon see stuff that makes us think “damn, I’m so envious!”