16 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Geoff Boeing
Urban scholars have studied street networks in various ways, but there are data availability and consistency limitations to the current urban planning/street network analysis literature. To address these challenges, this article presents OSMnx, a new tool to make the collection of data and creation and analysis of…
Geoff Boeing
This chapter introduces OpenStreetMap—a crowd-sourced, worldwide mapping project and geospatial data repository—to illustrate its usefulness in quickly and easily analyzing and visualizing planning and design outcomes in the built environment. It demonstrates the OSMnx toolkit for automatically downloading, modeling…
Peter Mooney, A. Yair Grinberger, Marco Minghini, Serena Coetzee + 2 more
'Levente Juhász' 'Godwin Yeboah'] Created by volunteers since 2004, OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a global geographic database available under an open access license and currently used by a multitude of actors worldwide. This chapter describes the role played by OSM during the early months (from January to July 2020) of the…
Dan Stowell, Jack Kelly, Damien Tanner, Jamie Taylor + 3 more
'James Geddes' 'Ed Chalstrey'] Solar photovoltaic (PV) is an increasingly significant fraction of electricity generation. Efficient management, and innovations such as short-term forecasting and machine vision, demand high-resolution geographic datasets of PV installations. However, official and public sources have…
Sukhjit Singh Sehra, Jaiteg Singh, Hardeep Singh
The meaning and purposes of web has been changing and evolving day by day. Web 2.0 encouraged more contribution by the end users. This movement provided revolutionary methods of sharing and computing data by crowdsourcing such as OpenStreetmap, also called "the wikification of maps" by some researchers. When…
Amin Mobasheri, Haosheng Huang, Lívia Castro Degrossi, Alexander Zipf
'Alexander Zipf'] Tailored routing and navigation services utilized by wheelchair users require certain information about sidewalk geometries and their attributes to execute efficiently. Except some minor regions/cities, such detailed information is not present in current versions of crowdsourced mapping databases…
Tiziana A. Gelmi-Candusso, Peter Rodriguez, Marie-Josée Fortin
Landscape heterogeneity has an impact on wildlife behavior, their interactions, and their persistence. Urban landscapes are among the world’s most heterogeneous landscapes, yet current global landcover maps classify developed land in a single landcover type. This limits the spatial scale at which urban ecologists can…
Duarte Sampaio de Almeida, Rodrigo Simões, Fernando Brito e Abreu, Adriano Lopes + 1 more
Application to Urban Tourism and Public Spaces Authors: ['Duarte Sampaio de Almeida' 'Rodrigo Simões' 'Fernando Brito e Abreu' 'Adriano Lopes' 'Inês Boavida-Portugal'] Determining the carrying capacity of urban tourism destinations and public spaces is essential for sustainable management. This paper presents an online…
Laurens J. N. Oostwegel, Danijel Schorlemmer, Philippe Guéguen
Buildings play a critical role in understanding settlement patterns and are essential for crisis management, urban planning, energy efficiency, and multi-hazard risk assessment. To address the need for accessible global building data, we introduce a dataset containing 2.7 billion building footprints classified using…
Carl Higgs, Melanie Lowe, Paula Hooper, Suzanne Mavoa + 4 more
'Jonathan Arundel' 'Lucy Gunn' 'Koen Simons' 'Billie Giles-Corti'] Measuring and monitoring the spatial distribution of liveability is crucial to ensure that implemented urban and transport planning decisions support health and wellbeing. Spatial liveability indicators can be used to ensure these decisions are…
Grant McKenzie, Krzysztof Janowicz, Xiaolei Ma
Gaining access to inexpensive, high-resolution, up-to-date, three-dimensional road network data is a top priority beyond research, as such data would fuel applications in industry, governments, and the broader public alike. Road network data are openly available via user-generated content such as OpenStreetMap (OSM)…
Maged N Kamel Boulos, Jeffrey Warren, Jianya Gong, Peng Yue
HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. It aims at reducing the need for proprietary, plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash. The canvas element is part of HTML5 and is used to draw…
Riccardo Testolin, Georg Hähn, Michele Di Musciano, Francesco Maria Sabatini + 1 more
Strictly protected areas are critical to biodiversity conservation, yet only 4% of the EU’s land currently meets this designation, falling short of the 10% target outlined in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. Roadless areas, i.e., portions of land 1 km farther from linear infrastructure, are increasingly…
Kevin Leempoel, Solange Duruz, Estelle Rochat, Ivo Widmer + 2 more
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly popular in the context of molecular ecology and conservation biology thanks to their display options efficiency, flexibility and management of geodata. Indeed, spatial data for wildlife and livestock species is becoming a trend with many researchers…
Christoffer J. Gahnstrom, Sarah C. Goodroe, Stephanie de Silva, Eva-Maria Griesbauer + 3 more
The world is defined by boundaries. They segment our experience of time and space, and in virtual environments have been shown to impact navigational choices. Here, we test the impact of boundaries on route choices in a real-world environment (London, UK) with a group of expert navigators: licensed London taxi drivers…
Mei Tessum, Susan Anenberg, Zoe Chafe, Daven Henze + 4 more
To improve air quality, knowledge of the sources and locations of air pollutant emissions is critical. However, for many global cities, no previous estimates exist of how much exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), the largest environmental cause of mortality, is caused by emissions within the city vs. outside…