City Data
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There’s a wealth of location data out there to make use of in various ways. In a series of beautiful satellite like images the artist Marc Khachfe has used #OpenStreetMap #data to re-create photo realistic images of cities.
They are completely stunning and you really feel like digging much deeper into them. Exactly what data that is being used is unclear nevertheless.
Another study by Bin Jiang and Yufan Miao at the University of Gävle in Sweden uses social data to define “Natural Cities”.
One can imagine that cities actually could start using both open street map data and social data to do city development, movement and behavioural studies; where’s the next upcoming areas to plan for based on organic movements rather than assumptions.
Chicago 