论文标题
合适的工作工具：空间科学工具构建的情况
The Right Tools for the Job: The Case for Spatial Science Tool-Building
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论文摘要
本文在华盛顿特区的美国地理学家协会年度会议上介绍了GIS全体会议上的第八届年度交易。空间科学最近看到了越来越多的呼吁更好地体现地理科学和理论的软件和工具。城市空间网络科学提供了一个明显的机会：从多种角度来看，传统上无法访问和分析非平面城市空间网络的建模和分析。本文反映了该领域的状态。然后，它讨论了开发OSMNX的动机，经验和结果，该工具旨在帮助解决此问题。接下来，它在最近的多学科空间网络科学文献中回顾了该工具的用途，以突出开源软件开发的上游和下游优势。工具建设是学术地理和社会科学的重要组成部分，但更广泛地激励了。为了进行更好的科学，我们需要构建更好的工具。本文以前进的路径结束，强调开源软件和可重复使用的计算数据科学，超出了简单的可重复性和可复制性。
This paper was presented as the 8th annual Transactions in GIS plenary address at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting in Washington, DC. The spatial sciences have recently seen growing calls for more accessible software and tools that better embody geographic science and theory. Urban spatial network science offers one clear opportunity: from multiple perspectives, tools to model and analyze nonplanar urban spatial networks have traditionally been inaccessible, atheoretical, or otherwise limiting. This paper reflects on this state of the field. Then it discusses the motivation, experience, and outcomes of developing OSMnx, a tool intended to help address this. Next it reviews this tool's use in the recent multidisciplinary spatial network science literature to highlight upstream and downstream benefits of open-source software development. Tool-building is an essential but poorly incentivized component of academic geography and social science more broadly. To conduct better science, we need to build better tools. The paper concludes with paths forward, emphasizing open-source software and reusable computational data science beyond mere reproducibility and replicability.
