Every year, Planetizen recognizes ten websites as the best online resources for urban planning, design, and development. This year the Arches Project received the honor.

Developed by the Getty Conservation Institute and the World Monuments Fund with Farallon Geographics as the geospatial, UI and application design development team, the Arches project is an open source, web- and geospatially based information system designed to inventory and manage all types of immovable heritage, including archaeological sites, buildings, structures, landscapes, and heritage ensembles or districts.  It is a solution that is both applicable and relevant to a broad spectrum of heritage organizations all over the world, while also incorporating complex functions such as semantic ontology, graph database, elastic search and built-in mechanisms to enforce data standards.

Arches is currently in large-scale application for the city of Los Angeles’ Survey L.A. effort as well as the Kingdom of Jordan.