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Episode: PlaceCrafter: Curating Urban Functional Regions through Platial Clustering of OpenStreetMap Points of Interest (sotm2025)
Description: The world is not just made of streets, buildings, and zones; it is shaped by how people engage and interact with places in their everyday lives. This abstract presents a web-based geospatial tool that supports the mapping of these lived places and locales named PlaceCrafter. PlaceCrafter supports researchers in identifying platial regions: functional, human-centred areas that cross administrative and formal boundaries. The framework is built on OpenStreetMap, combining (near) real-time clustering, analysis, and statistical validation of these platial regions. PlaceCrafter supports researchers in exploring the subjective experiences of place through existing datasets and city structures.
Contemporary urban analysis requires tools...