Issues about using GDP for population estimation

diogomatoschaves / osm-population-predictor

Population prediction model based on extracted OSM features

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Open SuminHan opened 1 year ago

SuminHan commented 1 year ago

Hi, I have question. Wouldn't GDP already contain the information about population? I am not sure if that is actually good to make a model.

diogomatoschaves commented 1 year ago

We are trying to predict the population of an arbitrary area of any size, by means of OSM features.

The GDP refers to an economics metric, not sure how you'd get the population from that.