New How Light-Green Is Your City?


The UK's Office for National Statistics has released ii interactive maps which present how much greenery in that place is inwards every street inwards the Welsh towns of Cardiff too Newport. To produce the ii maps inwards How Green is Your Street the ONS analyzed every pixel inwards every Street View ikon of the ii 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 yesteryear overlaying a 3D pinnacle nautical chart on overstep of the city's roads. The higher the nautical chart too then the greener the street. You tin terminate besides click on whatsoever street on either map to thought a percent 'green' score for the street too its marking of greenness compared to every other street inwards the city.

The ONS analysis is really like to MIT's Treepedia project, which besides analyses Google Maps Street View imagery inwards gild to produce upwards one's hear a 'Green View' score for metropolis streets.


MIT Sensable City Lab uses Google Maps Street View images to assess the total of tree canopy comprehend that exists inwards an e'er growing listing of cities approximately the world. They too then purpose this information to laissez passer on each of the assessed cities a 'Green View Index' score.

Each metropolis on Treepedia is given an overall Green View score. If y'all lead a metropolis on Treepedia you tin terminate thought an interactive map which shows the light-green score for each private street. Colored circles on the map supply an overview of the tree canopy comprehend that is available at locations across the city. If y'all lead ane of the colored circles on the map y'all tin terminate thought the 'Green View' score given for that place too thought a Street View ikon of the address.
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