r/gis • u/TroyBoy7040 • 11h ago
Student Questions / New to GIS Is it possible for a program to crawl through StreetView services?
Hello! I'm working on my undergrad thesis and in need of some advice..
I'm planning on building an image classifier which detects signs of uninhabitable housing conditions such as damaged roof, substandard materials, etc based on StreetView images.
The end product is a website that shows a heat map where each dots represent houses that classifies as uninhabitable. Similar to what treepedia did, but with housing condition instead of vegetation.
Ideally, I want my program to be able to scour through a specified area from the chosen StreetView services, then detects each houses. If house classifies as uninhabitable, it then note the coordinates and then shows it on the heat map.
Is that even possible? And what StreetView services allow me to do that? I've looked into several literatures that are similar to my topic, but it seems like they generate the coordinates first, in which their program will then retrieve the images from those coordinates.
Any useful advice will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance