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Where does the data come from for defining sketch areas?
by ilyas121 6y ago
Where does the data come from for defining sketch areas?
- no-dr-onboard 6y agoOoh, what an excellent question. Is the data crowdsourced, if so, by whom? What defines sketchy areas _besides crime_. What an excellent opportunity for consistency by certain worldviews.
- Solocomplex 6y agoImagine the shit storm if Google made "safe" paths.
- maxerickson 6y agoThey probably do, even just by factoring in how popular segments are. I agree there would be a shit storm if they labeled certain paths as safer though.
- DavidPeiffer 6y agoMicrosoft has a patent issued in 2012 for this very topic...and as you predicted, there were many news articles and questions about ethics brought up. [1] Given the market share Google Maps has, the economic fallout from them suddenly avoiding certain areas deemed "unsafe" could swing billions of dollars annually from one set of businesses to another. [1] https://www.npr.org/2012/01/25/145337346/this-app-was-made-for-walking-but-is-it-racist https://www.npr.org/2012/01/25/145337346/this-app-was-made-f...
- walshemj 6y ago@bestofnextdoor More seriously there are some serious ethical concerns people are missing here.
- PurpleFoxy 6y agoWouldn’t a crime heatmap be more than sufficient?
- pimlottc 6y agoFrom the article: > For this hackathon we used data about whether a street is lit or not from Open Street Map. Later we could incorporate official UK gov data about street lighting or even incorporate satellite imaging data.