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OSM2LES: realistic urban geometry for LES from OpenStreetMap

Tools & geometry

Python tool that extracts and rasterises building footprints from OpenStreetMap to produce urban geometry for LES. Useful for preparing realistic city-neighbourhood LES cases.

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Licence
MIT Permissive open-source licence: use, change and redistribute it freely, keeping the copyright notice.
Size
10 kB

How to cite

Lu, J., Nazarian, N., & Hart, M. A. (2022). OSM2LES - A python-based tool to prepare realistic urban geometry for LES simulation from OpenStreetMap [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6566346

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Details

Resource
Software & tools, Geometry
Geometry
Realistic neighbourhood
Codes / models
PALM
Year
2022
Creators
Jiachen Lu; Negin Nazarian; Melissa A. Hart
Institution
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales, Sydney; School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney

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