Dhaka's Boundary Encompasses Rural Areas
paulnovosad · x · 2026-07-15
They presented the Dhaka boundary case from GHSL-UCDB: the boundary extends far beyond a reasonable urban extent, incorporating southern cities that are a 4-hour drive or 9-hour bus ride from the city center, interspersed with vast rural areas.
This demonstrates how the algorithm can cluster high-density spaces into massive aggregates, mistakenly categorizing "dense rural regions" as a single city.
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