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Built For Speed 2010 Suzuki GSV-R

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Still waiting for blue skies after this rain.

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<strong>0814 Five in a row <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsofv/">by GSV</a></strong> <br /><i>Via Flickr:</i> <br />St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne in the background? 1920s.

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Street View Camera That Saw Me by Ed Panar.

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Prison Photography’s Pete Brook in conversation with photographer Mishka Henner on the ethics of his Google Street View (GSV) project, No Man’s Land.

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CreativeLive lands $25M to expand online learning platform further into the enterprise

The Shins frontman performs an acoustic set at CreativeLive’s Seattle studio as part of Chase Jarvis Live. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy)

CreativeLive, which offers streamed classes taught by experts from a variety of disciplines, has landed a new $25 million funding round.

The latest round brings the company’s total funding to $58.8 million since it was founded in 2010. GSV Acceleration led the round, and it was joined by two other new investors: REV Venture Partners and actor, director and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto. Existing investors Greylock Partners, Social Capital, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and Creative Artists Agency also participated in the round.

CreativeLive CEO Chase Jarvis.

CreativeLive, which has offices in San Francisco and Seattle, said it will use the cash infusion to refine and improve its products, including its live and on-demand video platform. CreativeLive is also making a push to work with enterprises.

“The future favors people and companies that can create, innovate, and design the best products, services and experiences,” said Chase Jarvis, founder and CEO of CreativeLive. “Creative skills, design thinking and a growth mindset were once thought to be ‘nice to haves,’ whereas today we know that they are key attributes for success.”

Enterprise offerings aren’t totally new to CreativeLive, as the company is already working with Adobe, Microsoft, Red Bull and GoPro among others. Enterprises could use classes not only as a way to help employees learn new skills or sharpen their public speakings abilities, but also as a perk, for say, a software developer who has always wanted to get into photography. CreativeLive has also worked with enterprises to create custom content.

Jarvis predicted that the most successful brands over the next few years will be the ones that use learning and education to connect with customers and cultivate high-level employees. In the past, training was a big part of a job, but that trend has diminished, and the skill level of employee has become one of the most important factors in hiring.

“The future is not really about where you went to a four-year school,” Jarvis said. “The future of employment is what do you know, what have you built, and who did you work with, aka, who did you learn from?” Jarvis said.

Through its enterprise push, CreativeLive wants to bring back that trend of on-the-job training through access to its immense library of classes, which is growing every month.

CreativeLive says more than 10 million students have consumed more than 3 billion minutes of video through its online classes. In its history, CreativeLive has created 25,000 lessons in 1,500 classes totaling more than 10,000 hours of video. Many of the classes focus on creative disciplines like photography, video, music and others. But CreativeLive also has numerous classes focused on leadership, business, and making creative pursuits profitable.

In addition to CreativeLive’s classes, Jarvis has his own show, Chase Jarvis Live. Jarvis, a renowned photographer in his own right, said the shows are meant to inspire people all over the world. He brings in guests such as Mark Cuban, Leto, Branson, and most recently The Shins frontman James Mercer, and asks them about times they’ve hit a wall, and how they overcame struggles, so that someone else pursuing a dream can be motivated to stay on their path.

CreativeLive has more than 100 people between its Seattle and San Francisco offices. Jarvis wouldn’t give exact numbers, be he said a a slightly larger portion of the headcount is in San Francisco, where many of the product and engineering teams are located. Seattle is home to much of the production staff.

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Hyperallergic: Using Google Street View Data to Track Urban Trees

An American elm tree on Central Park West in Manhattan (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

The recently launched Treepedia from the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) visualizes the “green canopy” of street trees in cities around the world. Harnessing the existing data on Google Street View, the interactive site was created in partnership with the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities and its Global Shapers Community.

Carlo Ratti, Senseable City Lab director, stated in a release that as “many cities experience warming temperatures, increased storm frequency, and continued air pollution, the well-being of our urban trees has never been more important.” Trees can help control rain water, cool urban heat spots, and absorb carbon dioxide pollution. Nevertheless, as Treepedia shows, many metropolitan areas are underserved by greenery.

MIT Senseable City Lab’s “Treepedia” (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic)

Notably, Treepedia does not map trees from arboretums, botanic gardens, or parks, as it’s accessing the photography of Google Street View. This might seem counterintuitive, but flourishing greenery on neighborhood roads and sidewalks is essential to a healthy city. The preliminary sample of cities includes Amsterdam, London, Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, New York, Geneva, and both Boston and Cambridge in Massachusetts, where MIT is based. City maps have clickable dots in shades of green and red to indicate the street-level “Green View Index.” The MIT researchers go in-depth on this measure in a paper available for free, and explain it more succinctly on the project site:

The Green View Index (GVI) was calculated using Google Street View (GSV) panoramas. This method considers the obstruction of tree canopies and classifies the images accordingly. By using GSV rather than satellite imagery, we represent human perception of the environment from the street level. The GVI presented here is on a scale of 0-100, showing the percentage of canopy coverage of a particular location.

MIT Senseable City Lab’s “Treepedia” (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic)

The highest GVI results include Vancouver at 25.9% and Singapore at 29.3%, while among the lowest are Paris at 8.8% and Quito at 10.8%. Navigating the map for New York, which is at 13.5%, there are visible tree voids in dense areas such as Midtown Manhattan, and around development in Williamsburg, where trees are often shrouded by scaffolding.

As an advocacy resource, Treepedia is probably best used as a complement to tools like the NYC Parks New York City Street Tree Map, which also tracks the care and ecological benefits of trees. Yet it’s intriguing as an experiment in visualizing available data in a different way, and in demonstrating how many major cities lack a beneficial tree canopy. Something Treepedia does not directly address is how the data could be used for tree preservation rather than new planting projects (like Million Trees NYC). For instance, Laura Bliss at CityLab reported this month on the loss of trees planted in midcentury Los Angeles suburbs to McMansions, and last month Alison Kinney wrote in the New Yorker on the care needed for even the hardy London plane tree, which thrives on the streets of New York. Recognizing and protecting existing trees is as important as encouraging new cultivation, and more accessible data can reinforce that need.

MIT Senseable City Lab’s “Treepedia” (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic)

MIT Senseable City Lab’s “Treepedia” (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic)

Access MIT Senseable City Lab’s Treepedia online.

The post Using Google Street View Data to Track Urban Trees appeared first on Hyperallergic.

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Agoraphobic Traveller

“Agoraphobia & anxiety limit my ability to travel, so I've found another way to see the world #GoogleStreetView”

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Digital marketing strategies—those strategies directly developed to engage the digital customer, like Google Street View technology. The question that remains is how ready is your organization for the speed at which this technology transformation will advance. Be ready @photosby_glenna #pbgvirtual #gsv #digitalmarketing #befound #beready #chs #mtp #photooftheday #like4like #followme #follow #picoftheday #instadaily #photo #photography Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

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