Study using OpenStreetMap and mathematics reveals there are only four unique city topologies
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 08:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —A pair of researchers, a physicist and a mathematician, has used data from OpenStreetMap and mathematical analysis to come up with the idea that there are only four main types of city topologies. In their paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Rémi Louf and Marc Barthelemy describe how they used publicly available data to compare the topologies of 131 cities around the world and what their study has revealed.