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Streetwise Technology

Pedestrian-first traffic management solutions

Surrey, UK
Govtech, Urban planning
streetscape, Vision Zero
https://www.osm-verkehrswende.org/traffic-signs/ActiveOpen-source

Verkehrszeichen in OpenStreetMap

Verkehrszeichen sind wertvolle Daten in OpenStreetMap.

Germany
2025
Civic data, Mapping, Mapping tools
Prototype Fund, streetscape, OpenStreetMap
https://mapsplatform.google.com/resources/blog/whats-new-with-google-maps-platform-geospatial-analytics-generative-ai-and-weather/Active

Google Maps Platform

Google Cloud now offers Geospatial Analytics, Generative AI on Street View imagery, and more environmental data as part of the broader Google Maps Platform

Mountain View, CA, USA
2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, Mapping, Mapping platforms, Mapping tools
streetscape, Google
https://testbed.cityofnewyork.us/pilots-cv/Active

Street Activity Sensors

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

New York City
2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine vision, Urban planning
mobility, city, streetscape, Sustainable cities and communities
https://lcau.mit.edu/research/spatial-equity-nycActive

Spatial Equity NYC

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Civic data, Civic maps, Data visualization
city, streetscape, Reduced inequalities, Sustainable cities and communities, place-based
https://www.towzonealerts.com/Active

Tow Zone Alerts

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

Boston, MA
2022
Consumer watchdogging, Service alerts
mobility, city, streetscape, Sustainable cities and communities, place-based
https://www.lacuna.ai/Active

Lacuna

A transportation operating system for orchestrating, governing, and powering modern mobility.

Govtech, Urban planning
mobility, streetscape
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971523000133?via%3DihubActive

Tile2Net

"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"

USA
2023
Peer-reviewed research, Satellites, Urban planning
streetscape, Good health and well-being, place-based