Retail planning in Bonn: data-driven GIS analysis with the WebGIS GOAT

The City of Bonn is seeking sustainable, future-oriented solutions to secure a diverse, easily accessible retail offering as an essential component of public services and quality of life.

To this end, a digital planning and analysis application is being developed as a pilot for the retail sector, which:

• integrates all relevant datasets from the Urban Data Platform (UDP)‍
• automates key analyses such as accessibility analyses, a local-supply review scheme and forecasts‍
• interactively visualizes and communicates results
• can be seamlessly embedded into existing planning processes.

Solution approach: GOAT as an integrated analysis environment within the UDP

The application is built on the GOAT WebGIS platform and directly embedded into the UDP—operated under CIVITAS/Core. This ensures ideal integration into Bonn’s existing system landscape by:

• providing a seamless connection to the central data infrastructure
• enabling direct use of the geospatial and domain specific data already available in the UDP
• allowing smooth integration into established workflows and planning processes.

Through this integration, a continuous digital application is created—from the data basis through automated analyses to interactive visualization—precisely tailored to the city’s requirements and transferable to other domain specific questions. The project starts with a detailed requirements analysis and data inventory, followed by UI/UX design and agile software development

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