AAG Transactions in GIS Plenary

I am giving the Transactions in GIS plenary address at the AAG conference this afternoon. I’ll be reflecting on urban science, spatial networks, and tool-building in academia, focusing on OSMnx. A paper will be forthcoming soon, but in the meantime, for any interested plenary session attendees or other folks, here are a few links to more info and related resources:

Getting started

What is OSMnx? What does it do? Here’s a succinct overview.

The easiest way to get started with street network modeling and analysis in OSMnx is with this docker image and these example/tutorial Jupyter notebooks. The OSMnx software documentation is available here and this journal article introduces it more formally.

Street network models and measures

I’ve published a public data set of street network models and analytical measures for every US city, town, urbanized area, county, census tract, and Zillow-defined neighborhood. The resulting public data repository contains over 110,000 processed, cleaned street network graphs (which in turn comprise over 55 million nodes and over 137 million edges) in multiple file formats for you to freely re-purpose, along with dozens of indicators calculated for each network. You can read more here.

Other projects and analyses

This round-up contains a set of links to related projects. Some recent popular projects include these analyses of street network orientation around the world, this urban form analysis, and this paper in Environment and Planning B.