NYC street view text data analyzed

Interactive map revealing every word visible on NYC streets using 18 years of Google Street View data

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Media artist Yufeng Zhao processed 8 million Street View panoramas to create a searchable database of 138 million text snippets from NYC's urban landscape. It maps everything from storefront signs to graffiti and reveals linguistic patterns across neighborhoods. You can search for specific words and see their geographic distribution. They use it to uncover cultural enclaves and commercial clusters throughout the five boroughs

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