Scaling of Geographic Space from the Perspective of City and Field Blocks and Using Volunteered Geographic Information

Scaling of geographic space refers to the fact that for a large geographic area, the small constituents or units are far more common than the large ones (Jiang 2010). For example, there are far more short streets than long ones (Jiang 2007, Kalapala et al. 2006); far more small city blocks than large ones (Lämmer et al. 2006); far more small cities than large ones, a phenomenon referred to as Zipf’s law (1949); far more short axial lines than long ones (Jiang

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Introduction .........................................................................................................483 Data and Data Processing ..................................................................................485