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Table 2 Open-source data accessed for the Knowing Your Neighbourhood Study

From: Improving spatial data in health geographics: a practical approach for testing data to measure children’s physical activity and food environments using Google Street View

Data

Source

Use

Taranaki region schools

Education Counts [69]

Creating activity spaces; Defining the study area and study regions

NZ Road centrelines

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) [70]

Regional Council and Territorial Authority boundaries

Statistics New Zealand [71, 72]

Businesses, including food outlets

Zenbu [73]; Googleway R package [74]

Assessing the temporal validity of open source-business data; Gap filling council provided GIS data

Google Street View (GSV) images

Streetview python API [75]