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Measuring Urban Sprawl Based on Massive Street Nodes and the Novel Concept of Natural Cities
Tao Jia, Bin Jiang
In this paper, we develop a novel approach to measuring urban sprawl based on street nodes and naturally defined urban boundaries, both extracted from massive volunteered geographi…
Defining and Generating Axial Lines from Street Center Lines for better Understanding of Urban Morphologies
Xintao Liu, Bin Jiang
Axial lines are defined as the longest visibility lines for representing individual linear spaces in urban environments. The least number of axial lines that cover the free space o…
Scaling of Geographic Space from the Perspective of City and Field Blocks and Using Volunteered Geographic Information
Bin Jiang, Xintao Liu
Scaling of geographic space refers to the fact that for a large geographic area its small constituents or units are much more common than the large ones. This paper develops a nove…
Zipf's Law for All the Natural Cities in the United States: A Geospatial Perspective
Bin Jiang, Tao Jia
This paper provides a new geospatial perspective on whether or not Zipf's law holds for all cities or for the largest cities in the United States using a massive dataset and its co…
Computing the Fewest-turn Map Directions based on the Connectivity of Natural Roads
Bin Jiang, Xintao Liu
In this paper, we introduced a novel approach to computing the fewest-turn map directions or routes based on the concept of natural roads. Natural roads are joined road segments th…