{"id":2979,"date":"2022-06-09T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wetransform.eu\/?post_type=news-and-events&p=2979"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:31:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:31:47","slug":"planning-for-zoning","status":"publish","type":"news-and-events","link":"https:\/\/wetransform.to\/de\/neuigkeiten-veranstaltungen\/planning-for-zoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for Zoning"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 18th, 2022 \u2013 About lunchtime<\/p>\n

The sunny atrium of Fraunhofer IGD is pleasantly crowded with people, all gathered for the first in-person event in a very long time: wetransform\u2019s XPlanung User Forum.<\/p>\n

\"Group<\/p>\n

I grab a plate of food and steel myself to go chat to some people I don\u2019t know, in my third language, about a topic I do not yet know much about. My gaze falls on a man in a snazzy blue suit, still standing alone at a table. He was one of the presenters, certainly he\u2019ll be able to tell me more about this whole \u201cXPlanung\u201d thing!
\nUnbeknownst to myself, I approach Dr. Kai-Uwe Krause, one of the creators of XPlanung<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My knowledge of XPlanung so far can be summarised thusly: It\u2019s a German spatial planning data standard our tools can transform other files into, and once that\u2019s done compliance to INSPIRE<\/a> is effectively automatic.<\/p>\n

In almost no time at all, Dr. Krause teaches me a lot more.<\/p>\n

The dream of XPlanung is a deceptively straightforward one: Use a single format and information model for all spatial planning, enabling easy exchange of planning data between planning authorities, engineers, and the public. Ideally, it should allow people to receive all relevant information with a single click.<\/p>\n

I have worked with spatial data and data standards for long enough now to know that actually getting to that stage is not going to be simple at all. The data unfortunately confirms that.<\/p>\n

But what makes it so difficult? So far only a few cities have fully implemented XPlanung. Hamburg, Freiburg, maybe a few more, but it\u2019s early days yet. Of course, implementing a standard like this takes a non-trivial amount of effort as many plans are still in the analogue age. However, modern tools (such as hale\u00bbconnect<\/a> make the process a lot easier. Using our tool alone, more than 40.000 plans have already been processed and published! A solid move in the right direction, but hardly the one-click solution for all of Germany we\u2019d like to see. <\/p>\n

Could that even work?<\/p>\n

As it turns out, it already works\u2026 in, for example, the Netherlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course! Germany is not alone in requiring a more accessible, digital way of allowing people access to planning and zoning information. For example, there\u2019s Denmark<\/a>, Belgium<\/a>, Spain<\/a>, and probably many more places where a similar system either already exists or is in the works.<\/p>\n

I decide to take the Dutch portal for a test drive.<\/p>\n