Charles University
UCL Bartlett School of Planning
heh, no way
University of Strathclyde
where?
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
Strathclyde became a plan B
MEXT scholarship (Japan)
QGIS is your friend
Though analytics is still marginal
yet, there were some hints of the future
Enrolled in a PhD programme
The Urban Atlas
How am I going to do this???
I got 0 skills I need.
momepy was born that day
a tool I needed myself
shared in the open
I made some mistakes
I fixed them over the years
none of the code written for 0.1 would run today
What does it do?
Idea and Concept
QGIS Modeller
Python code
“Hey, this does not work.”
“I want to do this.”
“This is how you do that.”
Hi Martin, I have a question for you: would you like to become a “core developer” of GeoPandas?
Hi Martin,
I have a question for you: would you like to become a “core developer” of GeoPandas?
are you insane?
We had to scale up the analysis but tools were not ready. So, we improved the tools.
And created some new.
Python Spatial Analysis Library
hi martin, this morning at our dev meeting you were nominated to be a pysal core dev i am happy to invite you to join the team
hi martin,
this morning at our dev meeting you were nominated to be a pysal core dev
i am happy to invite you to join the team
back in Prague
out of academia
Not anything new!
A study of urban form through the means of quantitative assessment of its constituent elements.
availability of data
evolution of software
performance
automatised pre-processing
all that pushes the limits of scalability
scalable urban morphometrics
Special Issue in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Software papers
Deadline: 31 May 2026
open access?
