Review and Compliance ManagementPurpose
1. Automate zoning compliance reviews by integrating external GIS platforms with local authority systems for rapid, rule-based geographical checks.
2. Automating retrieval of zoning data, overlays, and restrictions to validate planning applications before manual review.
3. Automatedly flag issues in proposals contravening zoning laws, heritage overlays, floodplains, or land-use boundaries.
4. Automating synchronization between authoritative GIS databases and internal regulatory workflows for up-to-date compliance information.
5. Provide automated triggers for escalations, notifications, or documentation based on zoning compliance status.
Trigger Conditions
1. Submission of new planning or land use application to authority’s portal.
2. Updates or amendments to existing zoning regulations in GIS database.
3. Periodic batch automation for regular re-validation of prior approvals.
4. Manual or automated request by compliance officers for zoning status checks.
5. Automated receipt of GIS update notifications (e.g., via webhook or API event).
Platform Variants
1. ESRI ArcGIS
- Feature/Setting: REST API “Query” endpoint; automate GET on zoning layer, filter by parcel ID or geolocation.
2. Google Maps Platform
- Feature/Setting: “Maps JavaScript API” with automated overlays; configure automator to fetch and parse zoning polygons.
3. Mapbox
- Feature/Setting: Automated “Tilesets API” and “Geocoding API”; automate conversion of addresses to zones.
4. HERE Technologies
- Feature/Setting: “Positioning API”; automate reverse geocoding and boundary data extraction for land parcels.
5. OpenStreetMap (Overpass API)
- Feature/Setting: Automate Overpass queries for zoning attributes and download compliance-related metadata.
6. Carto
- Feature/Setting: “SQL API”; automate spatial SQL queries for zoning overlays, configured by project ID.
7. Safe Software FME
- Feature/Setting: Automate “FME Server REST API” for data translation/extraction flows from GIS to regulatory systems.
8. QGIS Server
- Feature/Setting: WMS/WFS service endpoints; automate WFS-T transactions for zoning checks.
9. Autodesk Civil 3D
- Feature/Setting: Automate “Design Automation API” to script zoning overlay validation during site analysis.
10. Bentley OpenCities Map
- Feature/Setting: Automate RESTful data exchange for fetching zoning datasets for compliance workflow.
11. Azure Maps
- Feature/Setting: “Spatial Operations API”; automate point-in-polygon checks against zoning boundaries.
12. AWS Location Service
- Feature/Setting: “GeoFencing API”; automate land parcel analysis and zone rule validation.
13. SAP HANA Spatial Services
- Feature/Setting: Automated “Geospatial APIs” for zoning attributes and land use segmentation.
14. GeoServer
- Feature/Setting: Automate “WFS” requests for layer-based zoning compliance data feeds.
15. Trimble MAPS
- Feature/Setting: Automate “Routing API” with property boundaries and zoning restrictions.
16. Oracle Spatial
- Feature/Setting: Automate SQL spatial queries for zoning overlays and compliance flags.
17. Smartsheet
- Feature/Setting: Automate sheet integration with map widgets and zoning layer lookups through REST API.
18. Tableau
- Feature/Setting: Automate “Web Data Connector” to ingest zoning statuses alongside planning dashboards.
19. Foursquare Places API
- Feature/Setting: Automate place boundary checks relevant to zoning laws for location-specific planning.
20. IBM Watson Geospatial Analytics
- Feature/Setting: Automate analysis scripts for zoning buffer and compliance events with incoming application data.
Benefits
1. Automates manual GIS inspections, reducing turnaround times for zoning approvals.
2. Automation of compliance checks lowers risks of human error and regulatory breaches.
3. Automator enables authorities to scale review workflows with growing application volumes.
4. Automatedly keeps records and zoning validations audit-ready for external reviews.
5. Automating cross-referencing of current zoning rules boosts accuracy and public transparency.