The Street Potential Investigation Based on Open Data

This paper considers the issues of assessing the potential of urban streets development in terms of the composition and placement of commercial services for the population. The proposed method considers the network of city streets as the key public space of the city, and services as the main tool for satisfying the physical, cultural, and aesthetic needs of a person. The method is based on determining the specialization of streets by studying the ratio of the sphere of trade and services with other elements of the street space and assessing the commercial state. The demonstration of the method is made on the example of the city of St. Petersburg, and the source data is open data on the Internet. The method allows to form recommendations both from the point of view of the development of the streets system and determining the most attractive places for the individual services placement.