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This year’s OpenStreetMap conference moved online retaining its full spirit

We are moving our geospatial analysis to the cloud. As we are evaluating the various offerings by AWS and Google Cloud Platform, we wonder to what extent these cloud database products support spatial functions in comparison to PostGIS.

We are pleased to welcome Abraham Noah Wu as a new full-time researcher in the group, working on our flagship project on generating large-scale 3D city models.

Our curated inventory of data relevant for geospatial and urban analyses

The International Academic Conference on Architecture and Design (IACAD) 2020 has been held last week, and we contributed with a keynote

To increase accessibility, ease of maintenance and enable efficient analysis of OpenStreetMap data, we look at leveraging cloud technology

About two weeks ago, we published an article on how Singapore has responded to the new stringent preventive measures against COVID-19, including a comparison with dozens of other cities around the world.

We welcome Yoong Shin Chow as new full-time researcher in the group. She will be working on a new project on developing a method to generate 3D city models using geographic data science and machine learning.

Recent data reveals the way the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, giving a cross-city understanding of the adherence to social distancing and its impact

CityJSON provides a simplified alternative to the GML encoding of CityGML that is also lightweight and suitable for use on the web and mobile