Early stages of urban developments such as housing construction, new town development and urban regeneration are performed through the spatial analysis using the topographic map, cadastral map, zoning map and other various kind of thematic maps for the proposed site analysis, feasibility analysis and evaluation of urban development alternatives. For these analyses, urban developers traditionally have used commercial software like ArcGIS to analyze these kinds of projects. And giant Korean public urban developer like Korea land and Housing Corporation (LH) has support these projects based on the in-house enterprise GIS system. But developing countries facing rapid urbanization near the peripheral areas of metropolitan region cannot handle such problems only using the commercial software. They need knowledge and experience about the urban development rather than complicated software based analysis techniques or large investments on the enterprise GIS system. In this sense, FOSS4G (Free Open Source Software for Geospatial) are very useful tools in that they are easy to learn, use and also relatively cheap to maintain. LH has accumulated a lot of urban development cases and wants to store this knowledge to FOSS4G based spatial analysis as a rule base. By doing so, it can manage the fast growing cities sustainable. In this presentation, we will show some conceived urban development project faced by the rapid urbanizing cities and suggest FOSS4G based spatial analysis method using the FOSS4G like QGIS plug-in. |