Using geopandas on Windows
This guide was updated in June 2016 to reflect changes to the dependencies and the ability to install with Python wheels. I recently went through the exercise of installing geopandas on Windows and...
View ArticleUrban Informatics and Visualization at UC Berkeley
The fall semester begins next week at UC Berkeley. For the third year in a row, Paul Waddell and I will be teaching CP255: Urban Informatics and Visualization, and this is my first year as co-lead...
View ArticleScientific Python for Raspberry Pi
A guide to setting up the Python scientific stack, well-suited for geospatial analysis, on a Raspberry Pi 3. The whole process takes just a few minutes. The Raspberry Pi 3 was announced two weeks ago...
View ArticleVisualize Foursquare Location History
I started using Foursquare at the end of 2012 and kept with it even after it became the pointless muck that is Swarm. Since I’ve now got 4 years of location history (ie, check-ins) data, I decided to...
View ArticleR-tree Spatial Indexing with Python
Check out the journal article about OSMnx, which implements this technique. A spatial index such as R-tree can drastically speed up GIS operations like intersections and joins. Spatial indices are key...
View ArticleOSMnx: Python for Street Networks
Check out the journal article about OSMnx. OSMnx is a Python package for downloading administrative boundary shapes and street networks from OpenStreetMap. It allows you to easily construct, project,...
View ArticleSquare-Mile Street Network Visualization
Check out the journal article about OSMnx. The heart of Allan Jacobs’ classic book on street-level urban form and design, Great Streets, features dozens of hand-drawn figure-ground diagrams in the...
View ArticleUrban Form Figure-Ground Diagrams
Check out the journal article about OSMnx. I previously demonstrated how to create figure-ground square-mile visualizations of urban street networks with OSMnx to consistently compare city patterns,...
View ArticleUrban Form Analysis with OpenStreetMap Data
Check out the journal article about OSMnx. This is a summary of some of my recent research on making OpenStreetMap data analysis easy for urban planners. It was also published on the ACSP blog....
View ArticleOSMnx and Street Network Elevation Data
Check out the journal article about OSMnx. OSMnx can now download street network elevation data for anywhere in the world. In one line of code it downloads the elevation in meters of each network node,...
View ArticleOSMnx Features Round-Up
Here’s a quick round-up of recent updates to OSMnx. I’ll try to keep this up to date as a single reference source. A lot of new features have appeared in the past few months, and people have been...
View ArticleStreet Network Analysis in a Docker Container
Containerization is the way of the future present. I’ve heard feedback from some folks over the past few months who would like to play around with OSMnx for street network analysis, transport modeling,...
View ArticleOSMnx Summer Wrap-Up
OSMnx underwent a major overhaul this summer, with the development of several new features, improvements, and optimizations. This project concluded yesterday with the release of v0.16.0. This post...
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