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In a previous role I helped create Noise Maps for Northern England.

The predicted noise levels was done using the IMMI package (which I can recommend) and the cartographic output was done in ArcMap. There are also other packages such as LimaArc which have tighter integration with ArcMap.

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I want to take on a personal project to try and create noise maps for large urban areas in Australia. I am interested in both mapping noise from traffic (roads, trams, rail), maybe having a stab at aircraft noise and also looking at how the noise from level crossing bells can be heard by surrounding residents. As its for self development purposes, I have no budget for buying dedicated software like LimaArc or IMMI.

I was wondering if anyone in the GIS-SE community has found a way to create noise maps in a similar approach to how IMMI/LimaArc does?

--EDIT-- I had a play with the noise module for OrbisGIS (user16714 answer and comments below), but had some problems getting it to work - looks like it has a lot of potential but still has to be installed against a beta version and not entirely sure how well it will handle larger datasets. (Will post back if I get further with this).

Ideally I really want to do this all in ArcGIS or a more established open source package (QGIS, Grass, SAGA, etc) Have seen some papers that mention tools to do this in ArcGIS, but cant source any scripts/tools as of yet.

Has anyone seen any scripts (python) or free extensions where this can be achieved directly in ArcGIS?

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Thank you user16714 for forwarding our work. Here some details about how to use it : The source code of the computation core and the tutorial to run it is here : github.com/irstv/noisemap/wiki/Installation A presentation page in French : urban-modelling.org/fr/galerie-des-modeles/parcourir-la-galerie/… -Nicolas Fortin – nicolas-f Apr 3 at 9:40
Hi Nicolas and welcome. Any chance you could have time to put an answer down with some screenshots of typical results. It mentions a requirement is BD TOPO as an input dataset. What would I need to do if using a generic DTM? – Simon Apr 5 at 10:21
And do you have a forum or somewhere I can seek help? Been playing and already running into problems... – Simon Apr 5 at 12:21

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http://www.orbisgis.org/ has a noise map module. Hope can help you

Here one example: http://orbisgis.3871844.n2.nabble.com/Huge-noise-map-td6775778.html

Here more details: http://ogrs2012.org/index.php/ogrs2012/ogrs2012/paper/view/77

Here the library: http://github.com/nicolas-f/noisemap#readme

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Thanks for contributing to this site. Could you add some detail about how you would use this? Would be a little more helpful than a one line answer. – Jay Guarneri Apr 1 at 15:08
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The OrbisGIS (http://www.orbisgis.org/) noise map plug-in is a scientific computation core to quickly evaluate the noise impact on European action plans and urban mobility plans.

This model is based on the French standard method NMPB2008. It includes traffic-to-noise sources evaluation and sound propagation processing.

It is currently a 2 dimensional computation core, then the terrain elevation is ignored. It take account of n order reflection, diffraction over vertical walls of buildings. As the quick start tutorial show it, buildings are only a table of polygons.

You can ask for additionnal details on the following forum http://orbisgis.3871844.n2.nabble.com/

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