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. 2021 Feb 4;11:3037. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-82404-z

Table 3.

Clusters of temporal trajectories of the monthly number of buildings added, changed and deleted in OSM per country between 2012/01/01 and 2020/05/20.

Cluster Temporal evolution Countries
(a) (a1) steady - declining Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Bangladesh, Myanmar, India, Malawi, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Lesotho, Swaziland, Guatemala, Togo, Vietnam, Benin, Yemen, Djibouti, Niger, Ghana, Somalia, Tajikistan, Nicaragua, El Salvador
(a2) steady - constant Indonesia, Nigeria, Congo Democratic Republic, Zambia, Kenya, South Sudan, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Chad, Honduras, Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia
(b) (b1) alternating Liberia, Central African Republic CAR, Cameroon, Senegal, Namibia, Gambia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Pakistan, Mauritania
(c) (c1) stepped - multiple Nepal, Haiti, Rwanda, Angola, Bolivia, Syria, Timor Leste, Congo Brazzaville, Bhutan, Egypt
(c2) stepped - single Laos, Cambodia, Palestine, Vanuatu, Comoros, Guyana

The groups are defined by a hierarchical clustering approach based on a distance matrix derived from dynamic time warping time series similarity analysis. This table lists all countries with medium and low human development index (SHDI<0.7).