Alex Moon 💚

Canberran in North East England. CTO at proptech startup @placechangers. Software, public space, public health. Views my own.

[American Planning Association @APA_Planning]

Technology is revolutionizing affordable housing planning. Explore innovative tools like PolicyMap and ArcGIS Urban to make informed decisions and engage communities in shaping better housing solutions. Learn how with tips from @APA_Technology in #PlanMag: https://t.co/lkEufGRR9J

[Sebastian Weise 🌱🏡 🚴🏽 @SebWeise]

New case study on using @PlaceChangers combing pedshed analysis with resident feedback for improved planning.

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

Dropping two stickies onto a Miro board that just read "AI?" and "LURB?" respectively. #ai #lurb

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

Our proprietary machine learning model identifies areas of overlapping interest on a map which helps pinpoint "hot spot" areas that consultation has turned up for prioritisation. It's very cool! Get in touch with us to get a look at the functionality. #ai #MachineLearning #GIS

[PlaceChangers @PlaceChangers]

New on PlaceChangers: Automatically identification of similar ideas for specific locations! As a town planners, you can now save even more time in consultations 🚀 Check out all new features here: ↘️ https://t.co/lDkiukixVm

#communityconsultation #engagement

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

This morning I'm in Middlesbrough at the Thirteen GIS Event being run by Rebecca Dick and with both believe housing and Esri in attendance. Amazing seeing some brilliant examples of the new emerging best practice for the industry.

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

The reason we built Site Insights is because we spotted a gap in the existing market for a fast and easy to use site analytics tool. Visiting all the data providers individually and then programming the data into a GIS tool takes expertise and labour time.

[PlaceChangers @PlaceChangers]

Exploring a neighbourhood's potential? Discover the power of place analytics in modern town planning! Learn how place analytics tools on PlaceChangers makes data-driven decisions accessible to all. 📊 Read more: https://t.co/cW586WAvlT

#PlaceAnalytics #UrbanPlanning

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

"We want green hydrogen to compete on price, not just vibes." Write up on the economics of green hydrogen and why hydrogen depends on solar. https://t.co/YcC3YSduWq

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

"Imagine if everything ran on petrol." Everything DOES run on petrol. Specifically (in the UK) natural gas. This is a powerful ad, but it's not an ad for EVs as far as I can see.

[Simon Mahan @SimonMahan]

Just a reminder of perhaps the best electric vehicle advertisement of all time, from Nissan.

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

Amazing presentation from @lindayueh about the repeated patterns involved in banking crises from the last century, and the presence of those patterns in Silicon Valley and in China today. #tdc23

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

Hallucinations aka the "Boris Johnson problem" are a feature, not a bug, of large language models. From @AutogenAI CEO @SeanWilliamsTw1 #ai #ml #llm #tdc23

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

#tdc23 kicking off at Sage Gateshead - good to be here this morning representing @PlaceChangers on the North East tech scene. #tech #digitalfirst #thinkingdigital

[Sebastian Weise 🌱🏡 🚴🏽 @SebWeise]

There’s a reason why space-based insights are hardly used in planning. Data formats are challenging and time to insight is often very complex. But there’s clearly one advantage: for massive problems like energy efficiency of homes, you need a Birds Eye view.

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

@atamb_ Same experience with Don't Stop Believin' by Journey.

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

GIS is a huge opportunity for tech across the globe. Every missing link is a potential revolution in planning, construction, energy, industrial strategy and more. UK can and should be world leading. #gis #digitalfirst #proptech

[Alasdair Rae @undertheraedar]

New 52-page UK Geospatial Strategy 2030 is out, three missions

1. embrace tech to accelerate geospatial innovation
2. increase use of geospatial applications across economy
3. build confidence in geospatial ecosystem

https://t.co/CuJMHv6hjL

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

@TorstenBell Hi Torsten. Do I understand rightly that Labour could simply change the debt falling fiscal rule in the way you've outlined here once they were in Government? Any reason they might not do so?

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

Excellent tips on how to run a successful public consultation campaign, particularly from a local government perspective. @PlaceChangers specialises in making engagement more engaging - get in touch with us about implementing these and more approaches in the UK.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Most of our cities and communities badly need better, “more engaging” public engagement, and a better general on-going conversation about city-building. It could use an update, but here’s what @thiscitylifeyvr and I wrote on it in @planetizen back in 2014. https://t.co/pfqQ3JYuaF

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

The bazar in Gjirokaster is closed to cars, and the roads are blocked off in a variety of creative ways.

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

Tirana is a very pleasant city to walk about in (mostly! There are some missing sidewalks, presumably because the city is undergoing quite extensive regeneration).

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

@ID_AA_Carmack Damn, this is a shame. I have to say, it does cast your reasons for quitting Meta in a very different light. When you said "efficiency" I originally assumed you meant efficiency. Now I'm not so sure.

[Alex Moon 💚 @alexmoonpro]

@danlehnermusic "Ha ha, terrific!" https://t.co/mafJmsNGKv

[rob delaney @robdelaney]

"Ha ha ha! Terrific!" - Mitt Romney, every time Jar Jar Binks appears on screen