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Density and diversity of OpenStreetMap road networks in China
Journal of Urban Management, 2015 OpenStreetMap is a geographic information platform designed to provide real-time updates and user-generated content related to its freely available global map, and it is one of the most widely used examples of volunteered geographic information, a ...
Yingjia Zhang +4 more
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Analysing the spatial pattern of road networks in Kimberley, South Africa
Town 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]
Royal 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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ISPRS 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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Big 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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Assessing OSM building completeness for almost 13,000 cities globally
International 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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ISPRS 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
Geo-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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International Journal of Health Geographics, 2018 Background Lack of accurate data on the distribution of sub-national populations in low- and middle-income countries impairs planning, monitoring, and evaluation of interventions.
Bradley H. Wagenaar +13 more
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Journal 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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