The possibility of the present living space is chainging into the direction in which we create the functional and humanistic space while so far in which we create the economic one. And the progress of mechanical engineering makes it realizable today. Besides, the aspect of planning presents these condition in which plan drawings visuarized by computer owing to its progress are taken out, while so far computer has been used only for calculation. In this paper, we inquire the future direction

more »

... t planning or design in civil engineering or land use plan. Contents of this paper are, first, how to transform aerial photograph into numerical terrain infomation, second, how to transform it into visual form and last, how to make it possible for engineer to comunicate with macine for plan or design of residential area.