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CodeForPhilly / clean-and-green-philly

Dashboard to target Philly vacant properties for anti-gun violence interventions
https://www.cleanandgreenphilly.org/
MIT License
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Attach street view images to properties #5

Closed nlebovits closed 8 months ago

nlebovits commented 1 year ago

At some point, we'll want to find a way to attach street view images to every property in the dashboard. This may be best implemented in the front end, rather than in the dataset itself, but I want us to start exploring here. Philadelphia uses Cyclomedia for its street view images, although these appear to be paid. Google Street View images now cost something like 7 cents/image. This isn't urgent, but I'd like us to investigate possible options for sourcing images and come up with a best approach for getting the images onto the rest of the data in the dashboard itself, whether that's while building the dataset or in the browser.

mandyshri commented 1 year ago

In case there is any source of web scraping option available or we can get updated images from some open dataset why not just put them in our database for the time being the only condition I see is getting the most updated one but from the maintenance point of view, this idea could be a headache. I would still prefer the free city API for these images to be downloaded from time to time. Will look into it if I can find anything.

brandonfcohen1 commented 1 year ago

It's just a matter of using the Streetview API- which is easy just costs a bit of money. I think we wait to see if we can get funding for the project. Maybe we can also get some credit through Google.

nlebovits commented 10 months ago

It's just a matter of using the Streetview API- which is easy just costs a bit of money. I think we wait to see if we can get funding for the project. Maybe we can also get some credit through Google.

Bumping this now that we have some funding! We can build this into the budget.