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Analysing the spatial pattern of road networks in Kimberley, South Africa

open access: yesTown and Regional Planning, 2023
The increasing burden on South African road networks necessitates sustainable solutions that conclude their spatial configuration and arrangement. A deeper understanding of the existing road network’s spatial organisation is, therefore, required.
Tabaro Kabanda
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Diagnosing the performance of human mobility models at small spatial scales using volunteered geographical information [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2019
Accurate modelling of local population movement patterns is a core, contemporary concern for urban policymakers, affecting both the short-term deployment of public transport resources and the longer-term planning of transport infrastructure.
Chico Q. Camargo   +2 more
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A 100 m population grid in the CONUS by disaggregating census data with open-source Microsoft building footprints

open access: yesBig Earth Data, 2021
In the Big Data era, Earth observation is becoming a complex process integrating physical and social sectors. This study presents an approach to generating a 100 m population grid in the Contiguous United States (CONUS) by disaggregating the US census ...
Xiao Huang   +3 more
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A Proposal for Modeling Indoor–Outdoor Spaces through IndoorGML, Open Location Code and OpenStreetMap

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
Traditionally, the standards of spatial modeling are oriented to represent the quantitative information of space. However, in recent years an increasingly common challenge is appearing: flexibly and appropriately integrating quantitative information that
Rubén Cantarero Navarro   +6 more
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Assessing OSM building completeness for almost 13,000 cities globally

open access: yesInternational Journal of Digital Earth, 2022
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an essential source for acquiring building data, although such data may suffer from quality issues. Many studies have focused on assessing OSM building data quality but few have been carried out on a global scale.
Qi Zhou   +3 more
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Behavioural Effects of Spatially Structured Scoring Systems in Location-Based Serious Games—A Case Study in the Context of OpenStreetMap

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
Location-based games have become popular in recent years, with Pokémon Go and Ingress being two very prominent examples. Some location-based games, known as Serious Games, go beyond entertainment and serve additional purposes such as data collection.
Rene Westerholt   +2 more
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Evaluating current ethical values of OpenStreetMap using value sensitive design

open access: yesGeo-spatial Information Science, 2023
The crowdsourced OpenStreetMap mapping platform is utilized by countless stakeholders worldwide for various purposes and applications. Individuals, researchers, governments, commercial, and humanitarian organizations, in addition to the engineers ...
Ruba Jaljolie   +3 more
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Development of a land use regression model for black carbon using mobile monitoring data and its application to pollution-avoiding routing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Black carbon is often used as an indicator for combustion-related air pollution. In urban environments, on-road black carbon concentrations have a large spatial variability, suggesting that the personal exposure of a cyclist to black carbon can heavily ...
De Baets, Bernard   +4 more
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Transit station area walkability: Identifying impediments to walking using scalable, recomputable land-use measures

open access: yesJournal of Transport and Land Use, 2023
Transit station area land-use characteristics can increase or decrease the perceived costs of riding rail relative to driving or taking other modes. This paper focuses on those characteristics that create discomfort to riders who are walking between ...
Clemens Pilgram, Sarah West
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A qualitative enquiry into OpenStreetMap making [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Based on a case study on the OpenStreetMap community, this paper provides a contextual and embodied understanding of the user-led, user-participatory and user-generated produsage phenomenon.
Lin, Y.W
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