Research Information System
SIGraDi 2022. Critical Appropriations | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas., Lima, Peru, 9 - 11 November 2022, pp.101-112
New media platforms and mapping tools are created by digital communities,
and their representations influence public opinion. Crowdsourcing platforms such as
Twitter, Instagram, Google search engines and Maps have no such limitations or
boundaries as in the physical space, these platforms are creating new virtual public
places. To assess and forecast the accessibility and aesthetic issues of urban spaces in
Istanbul, text and image data from Google Maps were employed. In this study, we
searched at the reviews of certain public/semi-public places by using text mining and
image analytics tools. Recently designed or renovated 11 public buildings and open
places were chosen. The main findings of this exploratory study are that; 1) the level of
being public can be understood from the crowdsourcing, 2) image analytics of
crowdsourced visual data can assist to identify the aesthetic quality, and 3) the
accessibility capacity of public spaces can be identified.