New Perceptions Of Place

In Feb of concluding twelvemonth Google looked at Place Pulse, a Street View survey criterion respondents' perceptions of locations based on how they hold off on Google Maps Street View. One twelvemonth on Place Pulse has started reporting around interesting results.

MIT's Place Pulse projection is a crowd-sourced experiment examining people's perceptions of dissimilar urban environments. The projection aims to quantitatively recognize which areas of a metropolis are perceived every bit wealthy, modern, safe, lively, active, unique, central, adaptable or household unit of measurement friendly based on how people response to Street View images of the city.

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The Place Pulse Rankings page looks at the results of the survey, which consist of 100,000 images from 56 cities. The rankings tabular array shows the results for each evaluated perception for each of the 56 cities. Users tin so encounter which cities are perceived every bit the virtually wealthy, safe, lively etc as well as every bit good persuasion all the rankings for each of the cities.

Beautiful Streets is a similar 'pairwise survey' from OpenPlans to notice out how people perceive dissimilar urban environments. The survey presents a serial of Street View images of 2 dissimilar streets as well as asks the user to only select which is to a greater extent than beautiful. The airplane pilot projection of 200 street pairs inward Philadelphia attracted over 100,000 evaluations.

There is a 'download the data' push clit on Beautiful Streets (although it wasn't working when I tried to bring a hold off at the data). However, if you lot experience similar creating your pairwise survey using Google Maps Street View, the code for the projection is available on GitHub.