“…The flexibility that the agent-based modeling approach provides has allowed such models to be used in a diverse set of applications. These range from archeology (Axtell et al 2002), agriculture (Hailegiorgis et al 2018), basketball (Oldham and Crooks 2019), crime (Malleson et al 2013), diseases (Perez and Dragicevic 2009), disasters (Jumadi et al 2018), invasive species (Anderson and Dragićević 2018), to urban growth (Xie and Yang 2011), housing markets (Geanakoplos et al 2012), gentrification (Jackson et al 2008), slum formation (Patel et al 2018), and traffic (Manley and Cheng 2018). So, while agent-based modelers have been utilizing geographical data in their models, what has changed is the growth of data and ways of integrating such data within models (which will be discussed more in Sect.…”