Paul Cote:
Steward of Place-Based Information
(formerly Geographic Data Wrangler)
Paul & his planetable alidade
I work at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. My fundamental activity is to help people to use and organize information: to gain better understanding of places and they way they work; to make models that will help to understand proposed changes in places; and to create effective presentions of these ideas. In all of this, I stress the importance of understanding and communicating the biases and limits inherent in models and their components. Furthermore in all of this, it is imperative that the information, procedures and models that we compile and create should be properly organized so that they may be easily undrstood, tested, reused and built upon by our colloaborators, critics and successors. Below, I organize links to some of this work:
- I document GIS resources for GSD students
- I have served as the Architect of the Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services Testbed for CAD, GIS and Building Information Models.
- Web Services Architecture for CAD GIS and BIM An official OpenGeospatial Consortium Discussion Paper.
- I'm creating and documenting applications of new tools that the public to can use understand develop and share planning proposals:
- I'm developing ways to organize large three dimensional models of cities that can represent
different temporal and alternative design scenarios:
- A Simple Data Model for Managing Large, Dynamic City Models Funded by the Town of Brookline.
- A Database Infrastructure for Collaboratively Built, Metropolitan-Scale Detailed Urban Models
- Public Infrastructure for Virtual Cities A practical framework for a collaboratively developed, multi-purpose 3d model of the metropolis
- I collaborate with other staff and faculty
- I teach classes.
- I Dabble in Cartography:
- Free! GSD related graphics:
