(Image credit: Google Maps) On the wind-blown steppes of Central Asia, in an isolated corner of Kazakhstan, there's a large pentagram, measuring roughly 1,200 feet (366 meters) in diameter, etched into Earth's surface. The five-pointed star surrounded by a circle, located on the southern...
The implications for using Google Street View in the context of neighbourhood built environment research and grass-roots advocacy are discussed. The study was conducted within walkable distances from 19 primary and intermediate schools in Auckland, New Zealand, where \"walkable\" was defined as ...
Environmental Predictors of a Drug Offender Crime Script: A Systematic Social Observation of Google Street View Images and CCTV Footage:doi:10.1177/0011128720910961Victoria A. SytsmaNathan ConnealyEric L. PizaSAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA...
Victoria LeJon FroehlichACMConference on Computers and AccessibilityHARA, K., LE, V. AND FROEHLICH, J., 2012. A feasibility study of crowdsourcing and google street view to determine sidewalk accessibility. In Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and ...
Although pedestrian- and bicycle-oriented maps and associated routing algorithms continue to improve, there has been a lack of work focusing on accessibility. There is currently no way for a user to determine accessible areas of a city prior to travel. In this paper, we e...