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San Juan Islands geo.pol.is

Geo Pol.is about land use and conservation in the San Juan Islands

Seattle, WA, United States of America
2025
Polis, land

InformedDECISION™

a groundbreaking AI-based decision support platform, which is transforming decision-making processes for planning proposals on sensitive land.

UK
land

Searchland

The ultimate platform for the real estate sector

London
commercial, land

Local plan policy tool

Local plan policy tool

London
2024
commercial, land

GOV.UK document digitization tool

A new AI tool aims to modernise council planning by replacing outdated paper systems with high-quality digital data, enabling faster, smarter decisions to support the government’s goal of building 1.5 million homes.

UK
2025
housing, land

Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO)

Extensive land use and geographic data at the tax lot level in comma–separated values (CSV) file format. The PLUTO files contain more than seventy fields derived from data maintained by city agencies.

New York City
city, Sustainable cities and communities, land

Urban Reviewer

Urban Reviewer catalogs over 150 urban renewal plans that NYC adopted to get federal funding for acquiring land, relocating the people living there, demolishing the structures and making way for new public and private development.

New York City
city, Sustainable cities and communities, land

Living Lots NYC

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

New York City
land

Mapping Makoko

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

Nigeria
Clean water and sanitation, informal settlements, land