How Light-Green Is Your City?

The UK's Office for National Statistics has released 2 interactive maps which demonstrate how much greenery in that place is inwards every street inwards the Welsh towns of Cardiff in addition to Newport. To exercise the 2 maps inwards How Green is Your Street the ONS analyzed every pixel inwards every Street View picture of the 2 cities. From that analysis they were able to map light-green every unmarried street is, inwards both cities.

The maps demonstrate how light-green each street is yesteryear overlaying a 3D peak nautical chart on top of the city's roads. The higher the nautical chart thus the greener the street. You tin post away equally good click on whatever street on either map to persuasion a pct 'green' grade for the street in addition to its degree of greenness compared to every other street inwards the city.

The ONS analysis is real like to MIT's Treepedia project, which equally good analyses Google Maps Street View imagery inwards lodge to decide a 'Green View' grade for metropolis streets.


MIT Sensable City Lab uses Google Maps Street View images to assess the sum of tree canopy encompass that exists inwards an e'er growing listing of cities roughly the world. They thus purpose this information to give each of the assessed cities a 'Green View Index' score.

Each metropolis on Treepedia is given an overall Green View score. If you lot choose a metropolis on Treepedia you tin post away persuasion an interactive map which shows the light-green grade for each private street. Colored circles on the map furnish an overview of the tree canopy encompass that is available at locations across the city. If you lot choose i of the colored circles on the map you lot tin post away persuasion the 'Green View' grade given for that place in addition to persuasion a Street View picture of the address.