Table 3: RCL generalization summary (initial N=209,892)

3 STREETSPACE METRICS CALCULATION

3.1 DRAWING STREET CROSS-SECTION LINES

After the street data is selected, generalized and cleaned the first operation of the
streetspace-designation-metrics generation process is to draw a cross-section line for all the
street segments. Recent advancements in Geographic GIS allow the automation this process
which will otherwise be excessively time consuming to compute for large urban areas that
typically have a high number of streets. While in the preliminary stages of this research this
drawing process was programmed using ArcMap and Python, eventually a more efficient
processing model was created using a combination of algorithms from the processing modeller
in QGIS 3.6.

The OS OpenMap Local data set provides the base spatial units necessary for the analysis
represented as lines. In some cases, a line corresponds to one segment between the crossing
with other lines and in other cases multiple lines constitute one segment. Given that there is no

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