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Geoff Boeing

@geoffboeing.com

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Assoc Professor & Department Chair @USC Nonresident Senior Fellow @Brookings Web: geoffboeing.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gboeing

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Geoff Boeing @geoffboeing.com · 05/07/2026

Happy 4th of July, LA. We're #1! 🇺🇸

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Geoff Boeing @geoffboeing.com · 24/03/2026

Marc Barthelemy and I recently published an article in Physical Review Letters titled "Universal Model of Urban Street Networks." We present an algorithm to generate urban street networks that reproduce key empirical characteristics. Paper link: doi.org/10.1103/1vj4... Here's a short summary...

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Geoff Boeing @geoffboeing.com · 25/02/2026

I recently published a paper in PNAS Nexus with Marc Barthelemy, Alain Chiaradia, and Chris Webster that addresses the problem of urban networks' elevations: they seem simple enough, but modeling them can be tricky. Open-access paper link: buff.ly/Mt7u2QG Here's a short summary...

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Geoff Boeing @geoffboeing.com · 23/02/2026

How many street intersections do you see in this figure? I published an article recently in Transactions in GIS (open-access: buff.ly/TZoFrrf) and its first sentence sums it up: "Counting is hard." Hear me out... It really is!

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Geoff Boeing @geoffboeing.com · 25/06/2025

The official OSMnx reference paper was recently published open-access by Geographical Analysis: doi.org/10.1111/gean... Years in the making, it describes what OSMnx does and why it does it that way. But wait, there's more! I discuss many lessons learned in geospatial software development, including:

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Geoff Boeing @geoffboeing.com · 26/11/2024

OSMnx 2.0.0 has been released! 🎉 This has been a massive effort over the past year to streamline the package's API, re-think its internal organization, and optimize its code. Today OSMnx is faster, more memory efficient, and fully type-annotated for a better user experience. 🧵

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