Place visibility scoring system

A system comprising:

• a memory that stores instructions;
• and
• one or more processors configured by the instructions to perform operations comprising:
• receiving, from a computing device, geographic coordinates for a location;
• determining a road segment associated with the location based on the geographic coordinates for the location and based on a direction of movement of the computing device, the road segment comprising a side of a road corresponding to the geographic coordinates and the direction of movement of the computing device;
• determining a plurality of places associated with the road segment associated with the location;
• extracting visual data for each of the plurality of places based on a time of day that the geographic coordinates are received from the computing device by extracting visual data with a date or time that the visual data was captured that corresponds to the time of day that the geographic coordinates were received from the computing device;
• generating a plurality of feature values based on the visual data for each of the plurality of places, the feature values comprising:
• a size of text or a logo in the visual data, a height of visible text in the visual data, a distance from a road of the visible text, road segments from which the visible text in the visual data is visible, a directionality of visibility, and a readability of the visible text in the visual data;
• analyzing the plurality of feature values to generate a visibility score for each of the plurality of places, the visibility score indicating the extent to which each place is visible;
• and
• selecting a best place from the plurality of places based on the visibility scores for each of the plurality of places;
• providing an indication of the best place to the computing device, wherein the best place is used in providing directions, providing a meeting location, or instead of a physical address.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by at least one processor to cause a computing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, from a computing device, geographic coordinates for a location;
• determining a road segment associated with the location based on the geographic coordinates for the location and based on a direction of movement of the computing device, the road segment comprising a side of a road corresponding to the geographic coordinates and the direction of movement of the computing device;
• determining a plurality of places associated with the road segment associated with the location;
• extracting visual data for each of the plurality of places based on a time of day that the geographic coordinates are received from the computing device by extracting visual data with a date or time that the visual data was captured that corresponds to the time of day that the geographic coordinates were received from the computing device;
• generating a plurality of feature values based on the visual data for each of the plurality of places, the feature values comprising:
• a size of text or a logo in the visual data, a height of visible text in the visual data, a distance from a road of the visible text, road segments from which the visible text in the visual data is visible, a directionality of visibility, and a readability of the visible text in the visual data;
• analyzing the plurality of feature values to generate a visibility score for each of the plurality of places, the visibility score indicating the extent to which each place is visible;
• and
• selecting a best place from the plurality of places based on the visibility scores for each of the plurality of places;
• providing an indication of the best place to the computing device, wherein the best place is used in providing directions, providing a meeting location, or instead of a physical address.