Planners' Resource Centre

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Welcome!!!
to
Planners’
Resource Centre

Sharing increases our knowledge and multiplies what all of us have learnt by providing us opportunity to have access to knowledge resource of each other.
This is the very first effort to develop a plate form for Planners to access and share technical resources related to the Urban and Regional Planning profession in Pakistan.

In PRC you can have access to professional software, books, GIS/RS data, digitized maps, satellite images, scanned map and much more free of cost.

You can use the drop down menus above to navigate to the section of your interest.
For course material and presentations on Disasters and Hazard Management click here

An initiative of :

Due to a cyber attack, posts have been deleted. we are building it back better… Soon it will be fully functional Nshala.

Web Sources

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Scanned Maps

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Digitized Maps

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Contact Us

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Lectures Schedule

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Disaster and Hazard Management

Session : CRP 2007

Date	Lecture Topic
3-Oct-09	Introduction to disasters and basic terms, world scenario, situation in Pakistan
10-Oct-09	Disaster Risk Assessment and Hazard Assessment
17-Oct-09	Vulnerability Assessment and Quiz-1
24-Oct-09	Application of GIS and RS in Disaster/ hazard management
26-Oct-09	Start of Mid term exams
14-Nov-09	Sources of Spatial Data for Disaster Management
21-Nov-09	Responding challenges; Sphere standards for disasters
28-Nov-09	Incorporating pre-disaster hazard management aspects in urban planning
5-Dec-09	Disaster Preparedness and management in Pakistan, policies and practices
12-Dec-09	Case studies in disaster management from Pakistan
19-Dec-09	Exercises on urban disaster management
26-Dec-09	vulnerability atlas of Pakistan (practical)
2-Jan-10	Preparation for final exams

Course Facilitator:

Muhammad Qadeer ul Hussnain

Lecture 1

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Introduction to Disaster Management, Basic Term, World Scenario and Situation in Pakistan

Lect 1

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Lecture 2

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Disaster Risk Assessment and Hazard Assessment

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Google Earth Pakistan Skin

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Pakistan Lovers!

Planners’ Resource Centre proudly present the very first version of Pakistan Skin for Google Earth. Download, install and enjoy… :)

Below are some glimpses:

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Lecture 4

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Application of GIS and RS in Disaster/ hazard Management
and
Sources of Spatial Data for Disaster Management

Lect 4

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Lecture 3

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Vulnerability Assessment;

Concept and Process and Tools

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Books Collection

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Here is our collection of books for urban planners and GIS professionals. These have been prepared using some procedures to download pages from Google books and then compiled in the form a books. In some cases, some pages may be missing but still it will work for an excellent reference.

	Glossary of Urban Planning Concepts Download
	Revitalization of Historic Inner City Areas in Asia Download
	The Transportation Planning Process; Key Issues Download
	Urban Indicators for Managing Cities Download
	A Guide for Project Monitoring & Evaluation Download
	GIS for Housing and Urban Development Download
	Urban Planning and Development Applications of GIS Download
	ArcGIS and Digital City Download
	Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainability Download
	Local Government GIS Development Guides Volume I-II-III Download
	Managing Geographic Information Systems Download
	Managing Geographic Information System Projects Download
	Environmental Modeling with GIS and Remote Sensing Download
	Beyond Mapping; Meeting National Needs through GIS Download
	Beyond Maps; GIS in Local Government for Decision Making Download
	GIS and Land Records: The ArcGIS Parcel Data Model Download
	GIS Data Sources Download
	GIS for Sustainable Development Download
	GIS for Land and Property Management Download
	GIS in Public Policy Download
	GIS in Site Design Download
	GIS Tools for Water, Wastewater and Storm water Systems Download
	Hypothetical City Workbook Download
	Thinking About GIS; GIS Planning for Managers Download
	Modeling our World: The ESRI Guide to Geo-database Design Download
	Spatial Data Modeling for 3D GIS Download
	Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science Download
	Successful Response Starts with a Map: Improving Geo-spatial Support for Disaster Management Download
	The Sphere Project; Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response Download
	Project Management for Dummies Download
	Strategic Planning for Dummies Download

Caution:

Some of the above books have been obtained from Google Books. They might not have full pages but still can be useful for many academic purposes and references.

We are continuously updating the list, if downloading option is not available with your required book Contact Us.

Our Goal

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Get High Resolution Aerial Photos of Pak Cities

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Background

Remotely sensed data is being extensively used in various spheres of life ranging from town planning, transportation engineering, civil works, WATSAN applications, architectural engineering, landscaping and mineral exploration etc. for planning, designing, implementation and monitoring. Advancement of technology has given birth to an unlimited variety of remotely sensed spatial data with different characteristics available for use. Even focusing on satellite images and aerial photographs results in a wide range of data sets with different resolutions, quality, band combinations and coverage etc. The highest resolution of images available for civil use is 0.6 meters which is pretty good for most of the land use mapping, rural land classification, master planning and other town planning activities. But unfortunately most of the development practitioners and departments have no access to those images because they cost really high (20$ to 24$ per sq. kilometer for archive data) and takes around 3-4 weeks to deliver the images in Pakistan. In addition to this, the order for images can’t be placed for an area less than 25 sq.km.

We have developed some processes and combination of tools which provides the solution for all the above mentioned problems of coverage, time and cost.

Approach

Google earth is open source software for displaying satellite images round the globe which is free to use. All over the world people are developing applications based on Google Earth for meeting their specific objectives. A very recent emerging concept is to use Google earth as an Interactive GIS and we are also working under this umbrella. We are using raw aerial photographs from Google Earth Professional which are later on enhanced, mosaiced and geo-referred to develop a final product in a shorter time and cost.

Image Catalogue

We have the enhanced and geo- referenced aerial photographs for the following urban areas of Punjab, Pakistan:

Glimpses

Following are some glimpses from the developed aerial photographs of above mentioned cities:

GIS and RS Data Sets

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Here is a collection of a variety of data sources from where free datasets can be attained both in raster and vector format for Pakistan. For more additional data have a look at Pakistan GIS

1. We have formulated some quick ways to get high resolution geo-referenced images from Google Earth. At present, We have good resolution aerial photographs for almost all District Cities and Tehsil Cities of Punjab
http://pakplanners.blogspot.com/2009/10/get-high-resolution-aerial-photos-of.html

2. CAD Based digitized maps for 34 Districts of Punjab
3. Scanned Maps of Districts of Punjab
3. MODIS images for the whole Pakistan (250m resolution)
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/

4. GeoCover2000 Data for whole Pakistan
https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl

5. SRTM Data V3 for the whole Pakistan
http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/
http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/SELECTION/inputCoord.asp

6. Vector datasets for roads, railways, water bodies, administration boundaries of Pakistan
http://biogeo.berkeley.edu/bgm/gdata.php

7. Simulated Earth image at 60 arc seconds for all Seven Continents
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/datasets.htm

8. MODIS Earth image at 30 arc seconds for all Seven Continents
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/datasets.htm

9. Gtopo30 digital elevation model data for all Seven Continents
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/datasets.htm

10. LANDSCAN population 2000 data for all Seven Continents
http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/datasets.htm

11. Gazetteer of about 475 populated places in Pakistan with their population and location coordinates
http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=1230861383&men=gcis&lng=en&des=gamelan&geo=-172&srt=npan&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&pt=c&va=x

12. Vector datasets for world continents, regions, countries, 2nd level administration boundaries, islands, major rivers & lakes, time zones, Lat/Long and UTM Zones
http://maptube.cas.sc.edu/zipped/geog/world/maj_lakes.zip
http://maptube.cas.sc.edu/zipped/geog/world/maj_rivers.zip
http://maptube.cas.sc.edu/zipped/geog/world/latlong30.zip
http://maptube.cas.sc.edu/zipped/geog/world/latlong2_5.zip
http://maptube.cas.sc.edu/zipped/geog/world/countries.zip
http://maptube.cas.sc.edu/zipped/geog/world/continents.zip
http://www.cipotato.org/diva/data/misc/world_adm0.zip

13. Vector dataset for the earthquake fault lines, earth geological plates, volcanoes’ locations around the globe

14. World gazetteer of airports and its vector data of locations
http://maptube.cas.sc.edu/zipped/geog/world/airports.zip

15. Gazetteer of more than 188000 populated places around the globe with coordinates
http://world-gazetteer.com/
http://world-gazetteer.com/dataen.zip

EPANET-Z v 0.5

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Software That Models the Hydraulic and Water Quality Behavior of Water Distribution Piping Systems

Description:

Developed by EPA's Water Supply and Water Resources Division, EPANET is software that models water distribution piping systems. It is a Windows 95/98/NT/XP program that performs extended-period simulation of the hydraulic and water quality behavior within pressurized pipe networks.

Pipe networks consist of pipes, nodes (pipe junctions), pumps, valves, and storage tanks or reservoirs. EPANET tracks the flow of water in each pipe, the pressure at each node, the height of the water in each tank, and the concentration of a chemical species throughout the network during a simulation period. Chemical species, water age, source, and tracing can be simulated.

EPANET provides an integrated computer environment for editing network input data, running hydraulic and water quality simulations, and viewing the results in a variety of formats. These include color-coded network maps, data tables, time series graphs, and contour plots.

EPANET is public domain software that may be freely copied and distributed.

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Zonums Solution has provided an additional solution to Water Supply Designing Projects. It allows using satellite images from all the world to use as background of the water supply network and design on that accordingly.

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About Us

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Softwares

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Latest and Must Have for Planners and Engineers

EPANET-Z v0.5

Google Earth Pakistan Skin

Dear all!

Following is our collection of professional software for urban planners. Just click on the Column Head to sort in either ascending or descending order. Clicking on the name of software will take you to the Home page of that particular software.

We are updating this page to provide you direct download links so that you could have it for your study or practice. Contact Us if you immediately need any of these:

Sr. No 5	Software	Version	Area of Application
78	Xtools Pro for ArcGIS	v5.0	GIS Extension
77	Xtools Pro for ArcGIS	v4.0	GIS Extension
76	Xtools Profor ArcGIS	v2.0	GIS Extension
75	World Wind by NASA	1.4	Virtual Globe & Visualization
74	WinZIP	v8.0	Compression software
73	WinRAR		Compression software
72	WebZip	v7.0	Web capturing software
71	Typing Tutor	v6.0	Typing
70	TRANUS	v1.0	Transportation management
69	TransCAD	v4.5	Transportation management
68	TatukGIS		GIS
67	Sweet Home 3D	v1.8	3D House Design
66	Stitch Maps	v2.5	Google Earth Related
65	STATA	v10	Statistical Package & Data Analysis
64	SPSS	v17	Statistical Package & Data Analysis
63	SPSS	v13	Statistical Package & Data Analysis
62	SnagIt	v5.0	Screen capturing
61	Primavera Project Planner	P6	Project planning
60	Norton Ghost	v14	CD Image
59	Mini TAB	v14	Statistical Package & Data Analysis
58	Mind Manager Professional	v7.0	Mind Mapping
57	Microsoft Virtual PC	2008	Virtual PC
56	Microsoft Office	v2003	General use
55	Microsoft Office	v2007	General use
54	MapWindow		GIS
53	MapPoint	v2006	Mapping
52	MapObject Lt (not cracked)	v2.0	GIS Application development
51	Mapinfo		GIS
50	Manifold	v8.0	GIS
49	Loop	v2	Water supply system designing
48	JSatTrack	v3.2	GIS
47	ITTVIS Envi	v4.5	Satellite Image Processing
46	Inpage	v24	Urdu composing
45	Image Connect Extension		GIS Extension
44	ILWIS	v3.4	GIS
43	ILWIS	v3.3	GIS
42	Hiren's Boot CD	v8.7	Antivirus software
41	Health Mapper		GIS
40	Google Sketchup	v7.0	3D Modelling
39	Google Earth Voyager	v6.0	Google Earth Related
38	Google Earth Pro	v4.0	Virtual Globe & Visualization
37	Google Earth	Latest	Virtual Globe & Visualization
36	Global Mapper	v9.2	Satellite Image Processing
35	Global Mapper	v6.0	Satellite Image Processing
34	GeoMedia Professional	v6.0	GIS
33	ERDAS Imagine	v9.1	Satellite Image Processing
32	ERDAS Imagine	v8.7	Satellite Image Processing
31	ER Mapper		GIS
30	EPANET	v2.0	Water supply system designing
29	Eagle Point	v2008	Land Development
28	Bentley WaterGEMS XM	v8i	Water supply system designing
27	Bentley WaterCAD	v8.0	Water supply system designing
26	Bentley StormCAD	v5.6	Drainage System Designing
25	Bentley STAAD Pro	2007	Civil Engineering software
24	Bentley SewerGEMS XM	v8i	Sewerage System Desinging
23	Bentley SewerCAD	v5.6	Sewerage System Desinging
22	Bentley PowerMap XM	v8i	Mapping
21	Bentley Microstation XM	v8i	Microstation
20	Bentley Map XM	v8i	Mapping
19	AutoCAD Map 3D	v2009	CAD based GIS
18	AutoCAD Map 3D	v2005	CAD based GIS
17	AutoCAD Map	v2001	Computer Aided Design
16	AutoCAD Civil 3D	v2008	Computer Aided Design
15	AutoCAD	v2006	Computer Aided Design
14	Arcview	v3.2	GIS
13	ArcGIS Workstation	v9.3	GIS
12	ArcGIS Desktop	v9.3	GIS
11	ArcGIS	v9.2	GIS
10	ArcGIS	v9.1	GIS
9	ArcExplorer	v9.3	GIS
8	Aimsun	v6.0	Transportation management
7	Adobe Photoshop	CS	Graphics Designing
6	Adobe Acrobate Professional	v6.0	General use
5	Adobe Acrobate Professional	v7.0	General use
4	Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended	v9	General use
3	Acrobate Reader	v9.0	General use
2	3d World Map	v2.1	Virtual Globe
1	3D World Atlas	2008	Atlas and Virtual Globe

Acknowledgements

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