StreetSeen hopes to quantitatively understand different perceptions of streets. Most of us experience our cities along its streets. We walk along the sidewalks, bicycle or drive along the streets and ultimately explore our cities via these transportation networks.
Google Streetview allows people to explore places across the world through 360-degree street-level images. Google Streetview provides a great opportunity to study and understand our cities. StreetSeen is a project from Ohio State University which extends Google Streetview in order to allow people across the globe to experiment in evaluating cities.
Using the ideas from visual preference surveys constructed into pairwise surveys we have created an easy to use tool that let’s anyone construct their own survey and begin to understand what people think about places in cities across the world.
To do local development, first clone the git repository.
git clone [email protected]:osu-eng/technicity.git
cd technicity
Next update/install the bundle
bundle install
Next copy the sqlite database config to database.yml
cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml
Also copy the sample application yml file
cp config/application.example.yml config/application.yml
Next you probably want to run some scripts to create and seed your database
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed
For testing, you must first prepare your test database
rake db:test:prepare
Then you can run the test suite
bundle exec rspec
###Known Issues
Problems have been observed with libv8, therubyracer, and mysql. You may need to install other bits to get these to work with bundle install.
- Jason Little
- Meghan Frazer
- Corey Hinshaw
- Shaun Rowland
- Brian Kildow
This project is based on the great work of Open Plans Beautiful Street Project and MIT’s Media Lab Place Pulse Project. Both of these open source projects provided their code on GitHub and served as a foundation for the design of StreetSeen. The Mooculus site, developed by Jim Fowler of The Ohio State University, provided key reference for this project.
The vast array of imagery is made available by the exceptional Google Maps team.
StreetSeen was built using code from the following open source projects:
- Ruby on Rails: http://rubyonrails.org
- Twitter Bootstrap: http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/
- Glyphicons: http://glyphicons.com
- Capistrano: https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano
- Google Mpas Extensions: http://code.google.com/p/google-maps-extensions/
- Google Maps sample code: http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com
- Capistrano database.yml task: https://gist.github.com/weppos/2769
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