Paweł Struś
Paweł Struś is a geographer based in Kraków, Poland, affiliated with the University of the National Education Commission in Kraków. His academic interests focus on urban geography, geoinformation, cartography, OpenStreetMap, social mapping and the use of spatial data in the analysis of everyday urban environments. He is particularly interested in participatory and educational applications of GIS and open geodata.
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This paper presents City in the Rhythm of Colours and Sounds, a project combining OpenStreetMap, soundscape studies and Colouring Cities-inspired building data. Using selected Polish towns as case studies, it links OSM-based spatial layers with field soundwalks and participatory observation. It shows how open mapping can support multisensory civic cartography, urban education and social engagement. The project highlights OpenStreetMap as both a technical geodatabase and a community platform for understanding everyday urban experience.