Urban Analytics

Learn how to use H3's gridDisk, gridRing, and gridDistance functions to model service areas, accessibility zones, and multi-source catchment overlap. Includes interactive browser-based demos with step-by-step code.

PlaceAgents is an open-source framework for simulating platial pedestrian flows in urban environments. Using OpenStreetMap data, H3 spatial indexing, and interpretable routing algorithms, it models how people chain together sequences of places for errands, work, and leisure.

PlaceCrafter is a web-based platform that enables researchers to identify meaningful urban regions through clustering OpenStreetMap Points of Interest. Built with React, Leaflet, and D3.js, it provides interactive clustering, statistical validation, and platial visualisation of how cities are actually used.

An overview of our W2GIS 2025 paper analysing diabetes-related hospitalisations and deaths in Mexico from 2005–2022, using the marginalization index to understand how social inequalities shape health outcomes.