Analysis of Google Street View Coverage Patterns and Geospatial Data Trends
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Summary
The article analyzes Google Street View coverage data from a global dataset, converting it to Parquet format and examining geospatial patterns. It presents point counts by year and visualizes coverage across Europe, India, and Southeast Asia, showing how recently different areas were updated from 2007 to the present.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledLast year, I came across a dataset documenting Google's global Street View coverage.
Each point in this dataset includes the year and month of that point's last capture.
In this post, I'll convert this dataset into Parquet and examine its geospatial patterns.
Below are the point counts rounded up to the nearest thousand and broken down by year.
The darker colours are points that were updated closer to 2007 and the brighter colours closer to December of last year.
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