Read more about the CommunityViz Student Licensing on our site or email us at service (at) placeways (dot) com for more information.

The article discusses why CommunityViz is “collaborative in a way the information makes sense to people and people make sense to each other.” The full article is available here: CommunityViz: Planning on Your Feet.

See you in Atlanta in 2014!

Also look for Doug Walker’s session presentations on Saturday and Sunday:

• Session S441:  Web-Based Fiscal Impact Modeling (4/13- 4:00 p.m.– 5:15 p.m.)
• Session S200:  Tech Showcase: Geodesign Strategies for Urban Planning (4/14- 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.)

The guide talks about CommunityViz and numerous other tools in different coastal climate adaptation planning situations.

Read on for the press release and a link to the guide:

EBM Tools Network Releases Free guide to coastal climate planning tools

Arlington, Virginia (March 14, 2013)—The potential impacts of climate change are already influencing the choices that coastal communities, resource managers, and conservation practitioners are making for ecosystems and infrastructure. To help planners and managers prepare for the far-reaching effects of these changes, the EBM Tools Network today released a free publication, Tools for Coastal Climate Adaptation Planning: A guide for selecting tools to assist with ecosystem-based climate planning.

The guide is designed to assist practitioners responsible for understanding and preparing for climate-related effects. By focusing on software and web-based applications that leverage geospatial information, Tools for Coastal Adaptation Planning will help these professionals account for the health and well-being of ecosystems and human communities in projects and plans.

The guide targets practitioners and decision makers involved in conservation, local planning, and the management of coastal zones, natural resources, protected areas, habitat, and watersheds in the coastal United States including the Great Lakes. In addition to detailed information about a key collection of visualization, modeling, and decision support tools, Tools for Coastal Climate Adaptation Planning offers instructive case studies about how other professionals have successfully applied the tools in a several coastal communities in the United States. Professionals from inland and international regions will also benefit from the guide’s tool information and lessons.

Funded with the support of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment, Tools for Coastal Climate Adaptation Planning can be downloaded for free at www.natureserve.org/climatetoolsguide.

To install it, follow these quick steps:

1. Close CommunityViz and ArcGIS
2. From your computer’s Start button, go to All Programs | CommunityViz | Check for Scenario 360 Updates…
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the latest version
4. Reactive your license:
   1. Go to All Programs | CommunityViz | Activate License
   2. When prompted to Select License Type, choose “Existing License File”
   3. When prompted to Find License File, choose Browse
   4. By default, you will be taken to C:\Program Files (x86)\CommunityViz\Scenario 360\.  Choose the file Scenario 360.lf and click Open.  If you have placed your license file somewhere else, browse to that location.
   5. Finish the license activation wizard
5. Enjoy the latest and best version of CommunityViz!

When: March 6-8, 2013
Where: Boulder, CO
Cost: $1500

Simply follow the link below for more information and to enroll online today!

CommunityViz Public Classroom Training

Placeways is helping sponsor the weTable conference organized by the Texas Sea Grant program of Texas A&M University, PlaceMatters, and the Delaware Sea Grant program of the University of Delaware. Take a look:

Conference Site: https://sites.google.com/site/wetableconference/

APA Event Site: http://www.planning.org/calendar/event.htm?EventID=22392

CommunityViz 4.3 highlighted features:

• Two new premium decision tools: 360 Indicators and Hazus Risk Assessment
• Integrated premium decision tools licensing
• Custom script functions
• Numerous core updates
• And all same powerful, flexible capabilities as CommunityViz 4.2

For more information on new 4.3 features, check out our CommunityViz Resources page.

CommunityViz 4.3 is compatible with ArcGIS 10.0 and ArcGIS 10.1.

To upgrade to CommunityViz 4.3:

• Uninstall your current CommunityViz software
• Download and run the new installer for your version of ArcGIS (10.0 or 10.1), often called a “free download,” available here.
• Reactivate your license using Start > All Programs > CommunityViz > Activate License. Enter your license ID and password for Single Seat Licenses or enter the Network License Server name for Network Licenses.

Note: You no longer need to activate Premium Decision Tools separately as licensing is now integrated with CommunityViz licensing.

Note: If you are using a network licensing, a new version of Network License Server is required.  Download the Network License Server for 4.3 and follow the installation and license activation instructions.

• Start and run CommunityViz normally. Your existing CommunityViz files and analyses should all work fine. Remember, though, that newer ArcGIS version analyses won’t work again in older versions of ArcGIS.
• If you find some controls or toolbars are inactive or grayed out, check that the Scenario 360 and Scenario 3D extensions are turned on in ArcMap.
• More detailed installation instructions are available on our CommunityViz Resources page.

Questions? Please let us know: support (at) placeways (dot) com.  And as always, thank you for using CommunityViz.