The aim of this study was to monitor social mobility using mobile users’ address searches before and during the outbreak of COVID-19 Mobile Google users’ address inquiries between the dates of 15 February 2020 and 27 July 2020 in the historical peninsula of Istanbul were gathered The spatial distribution of the searches was examined and a heat map was produced based on kernel density estimation (KDE) The density of the inquiries started to decline in March, which is the month in which the first cases were reported in Turkey An increase was reported in address queries in June and July
Density Estimation of Mobile Users’ Address Queries before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic