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Resilient Cities From Geodesign Perspective:
The Case of Şanlıurfa Province

The web-based Geodesign platform GeodesignHub has been successfully
used for the above-mentioned projects and some other small-scale projects
at Harran University in cooperation with several local organizations. For
commercial purposes offered as a service, a payment must be made according
to the prices in the catalog, while for academic purposes it is free to use. With
years of improvements, it has become a suitable tool for conducting both
advanced and high-level workshops. When evaluated from the point of view
of a normal user, it does not require much knowledge and experience other
than expertise in geomatics. In addition, it would be appropriate to state
that the use of Geodesign framework (including alternating models, impact
models and decision models) is limited with 4th and 6th steps. Because
steps 1 to 3 related to data preparation and assessment of the current
situation (compliance maps) can be completed using any GIS software. In
most cases, ArcGIS and OpenSource software QGIS is used for proceeding.
Recently, extensions that offer simple functions for creating compliance
maps (for example, from the CORINE database) have also been added to
GeodesignHub. However, it is a well-known fact that the operation of ArcGIS
and QGIS cannot be carried out successfully without serious training on these
software packages. It is important not to underestimate this fact, as small
topological errors in the generated GIS datasets will prevent them from being
transferred to GeodesignHub. Although this platform is introduced with
various extensions for visualization, it does not support direct connection to
a VR environment.
Recently, different open source tools have been developed facilitating the
implementation of the Geodesign methodology as a stand-alone software or
in combination with other components. For example, the GIS Colab platform
was initially presented as a web-based solution that was implemented for an
academic environment. As a variant of Web-GIS, it provides access to datasets
via internet, Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) or other means related to Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards by means of WMS, WFS and WPS
services. In addition to supporting access to this data, GIS Colab also allows
the participation of the general public through applications that automate
activities related to data entry from voluntary geographic information
(VGI) sources and Geodesign workshops. GIS Colab consists of four main
components: 1) A GIS-based geographical database, 2) An Open Source map
server GeoServer, 3) A catalog for metadata, and 4) A Web Map and a Web
GIS component.
The open source “Geodesign Decision Support Environment (GDSE)”
has been developed within the framework of the EU-funded REPAIR project
(Arciniegas et al., 2019). GDSE integrates Geodesign into a single environment

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