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Exploring Urban Form Through Openstreetmap Data: A Visual Introduction

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  • Boeing, Geoff

    (Northeastern University)

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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, analyzing, and visualizing spatial big data from OpenStreetMap. We explore patterns and configurations in street networks and buildings around the world computationally through visualization methods—including figure-ground diagrams and polar histograms—that help compress urban complexity into comprehensible artifacts that reflect the human experience of the built environment. Ubiquitous urban data and computation can open up new urban form analyses from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.

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  • Boeing, Geoff, 2020. "Exploring Urban Form Through Openstreetmap Data: A Visual Introduction," SocArXiv rnwgv_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:rnwgv_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/rnwgv_v1
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