The Right Tools for the Job: The Case for Spatial Science Tool-Building
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05561v1
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:15:39 GMT
- Title: The Right Tools for the Job: The Case for Spatial Science Tool-Building
- Authors: Geoff Boeing
- Abstract summary: This paper presents the 8th annual Transactions in GIS plenary address at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting in Washington, DC.
It discusses the motivation, experience, and outcomes of developing OSMnx, a tool intended to help address this.
The paper concludes with paths forward, emphasizing open-source software and reusable computational data science.
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- Abstract: This paper was presented as the 8th annual Transactions in GIS plenary
address at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting in
Washington, DC. The spatial sciences have recently seen growing calls for more
accessible software and tools that better embody geographic science and theory.
Urban spatial network science offers one clear opportunity: from multiple
perspectives, tools to model and analyze nonplanar urban spatial networks have
traditionally been inaccessible, atheoretical, or otherwise limiting. This
paper reflects on this state of the field. Then it discusses the motivation,
experience, and outcomes of developing OSMnx, a tool intended to help address
this. Next it reviews this tool's use in the recent multidisciplinary spatial
network science literature to highlight upstream and downstream benefits of
open-source software development. Tool-building is an essential but poorly
incentivized component of academic geography and social science more broadly.
To conduct better science, we need to build better tools. The paper concludes
with paths forward, emphasizing open-source software and reusable computational
data science beyond mere reproducibility and replicability.
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