Chatty Maps break down the sound profile of cities.
According to an article by Trevor Mogg, "a Europe-based research team comprising three computer scientists and an architect started a project called Chatty Maps to produce beautiful-looking interactive maps that let you see how your city sounds."
The article includes details on the methodology used to create the maps, as well as a description of the results:
Click on New York City’s Fifth Avenue, for example, and you’ll find the sounds there break down as 41.8 percent human, 23.9 percent mechanical, 14.3 percent transport, 14 percent nature, and 5.9 percent music. In contrast, Riverside Drive, on the west side of Manhattan, shows 81.5 percent nature, 14.2 percent human, 2.7 percent transport, and 1.5 percent mechanical.
The team has created sounds maps for 12 cities around the world so far, including Chicago, Washington, D.C., Miami, Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, and New York.
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