The UK's Office for National Statistics has released 2 interactive maps which present how much greenery at that spot is inwards every street inwards the Welsh towns of Cardiff too Newport. To orbit the 2 maps inwards How Green is Your Street the ONS analyzed every pixel inwards every Street View icon of the 2 cities. From that analysis they were able to map light-green every unmarried street is, inwards both cities.
The maps present how light-green each street is past times overlaying a 3D tiptop nautical chart on top of the city's roads. The higher the nautical chart too hence the greener the street. You tin likewise click on whatever street on either map to persuasion a per centum 'green' score for the street too its score of greenness compared to every other street inwards the city.
The ONS analysis is real similar to MIT's Treepedia project, which likewise analyses Google Maps Street View imagery inwards club to orbit upwards one's hear a 'Green View' score for urban center streets.
MIT Sensable City Lab uses Google Maps Street View images to assess the total of tree canopy encompass that exists inwards an e'er growing listing of cities some the world. They too hence purpose this information to give each of the assessed cities a 'Green View Index' score.
Each urban center on Treepedia is given an overall Green View score. If yous pick out a urban center on Treepedia you tin persuasion an interactive map which shows the light-green score for each private street. Colored circles on the map render an overview of the tree canopy encompass that is available at locations across the city. If yous pick out i of the colored circles on the map yous tin persuasion the 'Green View' score given for that place too persuasion a Street View icon of the address.
