Web Scraper Utilizes Google Street view Images to Power a University Tour

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Peiyuan Sun ◽

Yu Sun

Keyword(s):

College Campuses ◽

University Campus ◽

Public Buildings ◽

Google Street View ◽

Virtual Tour ◽

Street View ◽

Correct Location ◽

The Web

Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, college tours are no longer available, so many students have lost the opportunity to see their dream school’s campus. To solve this problem, we developed a product called “Virtourgo,” a university virtual tour website that uses Google Street View images gathered from a web scraper allowing students to see what college campuses are like even when tours are unavailable during the pandemic. The project consists of 3/4 parts: the web scraper script, the GitHub server, the Google Domains DNS Server, and the HTML files. Some challenges we met include scraping repeated pictures and letting the HTML dropdown menu jump to the correct location. We solved these by implementing Python and Javascript functions that specifically target such challenges. Finally, after experimenting with all the functions of the web scraper and website, we confirmed that it works as expected and can scrape and deliver tours of any university campus or public buildings we want.

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Something that Disturbs: Encounters between Animals and Optical Machines

Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung ◽

10.28937/1000108421 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (2020) ◽

Author(s):

Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi

Keyword(s):

Digital Images ◽

Google Street View ◽

Media Technologies ◽

Street View ◽

Semiotic Approach ◽

The Web

Images of encounters between animals and drones or Google Street View cars are quite viral on the web. This article focuses on the different regimes of animacy and conflicts of affects in these images using an anthropo- semiotic approach. It investigates how other- ness reveals something that exceeds us, from the materiality of the machine to systems of values. It suggests that the disturbance of ani- mal presence in contemporary digital images helps us to read media technologies.

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Implementasi Virtual Tour Sebagai Media Informasi Daerah (Studi Kasus : Kota Manado)

Jurnal Teknik Informatika ◽

10.35793/jti.9.1.2016.13456 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Fadli Umafagur ◽

Steven R. Sentinuwo ◽

Brave A. Sugiarso

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Google Maps ◽

Google Street View ◽

Virtual Tour ◽

Street View ◽

Development Life Cycle ◽

Multimedia Development

Abstrak – Perkembangan teknologi yang semakin hari semakin pesat, memunculkan banyak inovasi baru dari teknologi. Salah satu inovasi yang kita jumpai saat ini adalah Virtual tour misalnya penyampaian informasi tentang lokasi dari suatu daerah atau tempat dengan Virtual tour. Akan tetapi penggunaan aplikasi virtual tour sebagai media penyampaian informasi untuk memperkenalkan lokasi–lokasi di Kota Manado belum ada, sehingga dibuatlah sebuah media Implementasi Virtual Tour Sebagai Media Infomasi Daerah (Studi Kasus : Kota Manado). Tujuan aplikasi ini untuk mengimplementasikan virtual tour sebagai media informasi untuk memperkenalkan lokasi yang bisa di kunjungi di Kota Manado dimana informasi ini ditampilkan secara visual dari suatu lokasi dengan panorama 360o sehingga pengguna dapat mengetahui keadaan sekitar. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode Multimedia Development Life Cycle (MDLC) yang merupakan metode rancang bangun perangkat lunak multimedia yang menekankan pada 6 tahap pengembangan multimedia. Terdapat tiga puluh satu lokasi di Kota Manado yang digunakan dalam pembuatan apliaksi Virtual tour ini. Pada penelitian ini gambar panorama 3600 akan dipublish kedalam website Dinas Pariwisata dan Kebudayaan Kota Manado dan juga diintegrasikan ke Google Maps dan Google Street View sehingga pengguna dapat melihat lokasi-lokasi tersebut kapan dan dimana saja dengan menggunakan bantuan internet.

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Virtual Tour Panorama 360 Derajat Kampus Universitas Sam Ratulangi Manado

Jurnal Teknik Informatika ◽

10.35793/jti.8.1.2016.13173 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Fahri R. Daud ◽

Virginia Tulenan ◽

Xaverius B. N. Najoan

Keyword(s):

Google Maps ◽

Google Street View ◽

Virtual Tour ◽

Street View

Universitas Sam Ratulangi Manado merupakan perguruan tinggi terbesar di Sulawesi Utara. Dan setiap tahun bertambahnya mahasiswa baru di Universitas Sam Ratulangi Manado yang datang dari dalam maupun luar provinsi Sulawesi Utara. Calon mahasiswa dari berbagai daerah tentunya banyak yang mencari informasi wilayah kampus baik fakultas, jurusan, dan program studi melalui media yang ada. Melihat hal tersebut, maka dibuatlah sebuah media Virtual Tour panorama 360o kampus Universitas Sam Ratulangi Manado berbasis website, saat ini sudah banyak yang menggunakan teknologi Virtual Tour tersebut dalam industri, pendidikan, jurnalisme, bisnis, dan lain sebagainya, untuk sebagai media informasi visual yang efektif dan interaktif. Dalam penelitian ini dilakukan kombinasi antara gambar panorama 360o dengan video yang akan dipublikasikan ke website Unsrat dan menggunakan fasilitas Google Maps dan Google Street View sehingga pengguna dapat melihat informasi lokasi visual secara online dengan mengakses situs resmi https://maps.google.com dengan kata kunci Unsrat. Pengembangan sistem dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode pengembangan Luther Hadi Sutopo, melalui tahapan concept, desaign, material collecting, assembly, testing, dan distribution. Dalam aplikasi Virtual Tour kampus ini pengguna dapat melihat lingkungan kampus secara visual dengan pandangan panorama 360o . Selain itu, pengguna juga dapat berjalan-jalan ke 29 lokasi yang ada di kampus Universitas Sam Ratulangi Manado menggunakan tombol yang disediakan. Aplikasi Virtual Tour kampus ini telah melewati proses pengujian, dan berfungsi sesuai yang diharapkan.

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Proposal of System for Calculating Sky View Factor Using Google Street View

New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives - Frontiers of Real Estate Science in Japan ◽

10.1007/978-981-15-8848-8_22 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 313-324

Author(s):

Shoko Nishio ◽

Fumiko Ito

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

View Factor ◽

Panoramic Image ◽

Original Image ◽

Google Street View ◽

Sky View Factor ◽

Street View ◽

Current Point ◽

Extended Area ◽

The Web

AbstractIn recent years, big data entered use in various fields. Google Street View (hereinafter called “GSV”) can be regarded as open big data, and its images can be obtained using API. The streets can be viewed 360° horizontally and 290° vertically from each point on the web. In addition to those, zooming up is available, and the viewpoint can be moved approximately 10 m forward or backward to/from the current point. The original image to provide the view is the panoramic image associated with the latitude and longitude information on the street consecutively at intervals of 10 m, and they exist as massive data on the web. We determine the area of the sky using these images from GSV. In this research, we calculate the sky view factor (hereinafter called “SVF”) in an extended area by defining the area of the sky with the SVF and utilizing the computer.

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Aestheticizing Google critique: A 20-year retrospective

Big Data & Society ◽

10.1177/2053951718768626 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 205395171876862 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Richard Rogers

Keyword(s):

Search Engine ◽

Deep Web ◽

Google Street View ◽

Street View ◽

Information Politics ◽

Filter Bubble ◽

Cultural Responses ◽

Critical Interest ◽

The Web

With Google marking its 20th year online, the piece provides a retrospective of cultural commentary and select works of Google art that have transformed the search engine into an object of critical interest. Taken up are artistic and cultural responses to Google by independent artists but also by cultural critics and technology writers, including the development of such evocative notions as the deep web, flickering man and filter bubble. Among the critiques that have taken shape in the works to be discussed here are objects and subjects brought into being by Google (such as ‘spammy neighbourhoods’), Googlization, Google’s information politics, its licensing (or what one is agreeing to when searching) as well as issues surrounding specific products such as Google Street View, as Google leaves the web, capturing more spaces to search.

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