Software

Follow these links to: This page contains links to software arising from my research. These tools are offered on an 'as seen' basis: no guarantees are offered and no liability accepted. The code is written in Visual Basic 6 and should work on a PC running Windows 95/NT 4 or later. Each download consists of a Zip archive containing the necessary installation files. You should unzip the archive and then run the setup.exe program provided.

SurfaceBuilder ('02 version, 2.3Mb)

SurfaceBuilder ('07 version, 2.3Mb)

SurfaceBuilder: tool for the generation of population surface models from zone centroid locations. Will read a wide variety of ASCII text formats and construct grid-based surface models. Outputs to a range of user-specified formats. Includes a basic surface previewer.  The '07 version contains some bug fixes and enhancements, including the ability to handle larger datasets.
AZM (2.1Mb) AZM (Automated Zone Matching): tool for automated zone design. Impements zone design on a set of zones described by polygon and arc attribute tables exported from Arc/Info or generated by users' own programs. Will optimize the match between two zonal systems, or the aggregation of a set of building block zones into output areas with a range of user-controlled design parameters.
AZTool AZTool (Automated Zoning tool): this is a long-awaited development based on the AZM software but much updated in collaboration with colleages Samantha Cockings, Andy Harfoot and Duncan Hornsby. It includes more general-purpose zone design functionality, the ability to input data in Shapefile format and an XML parameter file structure. The link is to a page of instructions and downloadable executable code.
Last modified 2 March 2011
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