Amsterdam·2025·a worked example

The ELEVATE protocol, worked through in Amsterdam.

Seven work packages. Real city data where it exists, synthetic data where it cannot, each labelled.

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WP1 · Co-creationhypothetical

Who asks what of the streets?

16questions from six stakeholder groups, written by role-play for workshops to replace
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WP2 · Mobility and activitysynthetic

A week of movement, made up.

200 synthetic people, a GPS fix every 30 seconds, run through the protocol's cleaning. One of their walks:

WalkS097, day 5 · 1.9 km
GPS fixes (orange)36
Walked0 m
Green view on the way
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WP3 · Streetscape analysisreal data

99,100 street views, read by open models.

Front view on the Bloemgracht, 3 July 2025
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WP4 · Mixed methodsreal data

Residents' reports, set against the images.

223,592public-space reports, June to October 2025

Here both point the same way.

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WP5 · Spatial modellingreal data

Where little green meets low income.

21buurten in a low green-view cluster and among the most low-income households

Then the protocol's step model, tested on synthetic data with an answer planted in advance.

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WP6 · Recommenderidea

From a gap to a picture.

Prinseneiland, street trees added by an image model. 47 such pictures; in every one, both audit models see the added feature. Rate them yourself →

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WP7 · Open sciencedocumentation

Open sources, stated limits.

Sources and models, licences listed14
Personal datanone: mobility is synthetic
Audit and search codeGeoAI-VLM, open source
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Aerial photo 2025: Beeldmateriaal Nederland via PDOK · Buildings: 3DBAG (TU Delft, 3DGI), re-encoded here · both CC BY 4.0
Reading the labels

What is real here, and what is not.

real data The City's 2025 panoramas, CBS statistics, OpenStreetMap and the City's public-space reports. Model outputs are observations of images, not measurements of health, safety or walkability.

synthetic Generated here to the protocol's parameters, to test the analysis chain against a known answer. No person was tracked.

hypothetical Written by role-play, to be replaced by what workshops say.

idea Something I would bring to the project; not part of the protocol.