Published May 17, 2022
| Version 0.0.1
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OSM2PALM
Authors/Creators
- 1. School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney
- 2. ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Description
OSM2PALM is an open-source Python-based code extracting and rasterizing building footprint from OpenStreetMap for the underlying geometry required by the Parallelized Large-Eddy Simulation Model (PALM). It takes longitude/latitude coordinates enclosing a bounding box, desired resolution, default building height, rotation angle as input and outputs the rastered urban layouts in plain text ASCII form. In addition, OSM2PALM calculates key geometric parameters such as density, street connectivity and entropy of facet to characterize the rastered computational domain, which proved to be effectively control the urban flow.