{"id":933,"date":"2016-08-03T19:44:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=933"},"modified":"2016-08-03T19:44:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T00:44:09","slug":"areas-of-interest-in-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2016\/08\/03\/areas-of-interest-in-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Areas of Interest&#8221; in Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.googleblog.com\/2016\/07\/discover-action-around-you-with-updated.html\" target=\"_blank\">July 25, 2016 post on the Google Maps blog<\/a> notes a new feature: &#8220;As you explore the new map, you\u2019ll notice areas shaded in orange representing &#8216;areas of interest&#8217;\u2014places where there\u2019s a lot of activities and things to do.&#8221; The post goes on to note, &#8220;we determine &#8216;areas of interest&#8217; with an algorithmic process that allows us to highlight the areas with the highest concentration of restaurants, bars and shops. In high-density areas like NYC, we use a human touch to make sure we\u2019re showing the most active areas.&#8221; It turns out, however, that the algorithm and\/or human touch seems to embed\u00a0class and racial biases, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/design\/2016\/08\/google-maps-areas-of-interest\/493670\/\" target=\"_blank\">non-areas of interests reflect real-life geographic divides<\/a>. Hopefully the next update of Google Maps will tweak the algorithm and human guidance processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A July 25, 2016 post on the Google Maps blog notes a new feature: &#8220;As you explore the new map, you\u2019ll notice areas shaded in orange representing &#8216;areas of interest&#8217;\u2014places where there\u2019s a lot of activities and things to do.&#8221; The post goes on to note, &#8220;we determine &#8216;areas of interest&#8217; with an algorithmic process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3504,193],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-social-structure","tag-stratification"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}