Re:The quietest places in the loudest cities
by solardev on Sunday February 11, 2024 @03:20PM
(#39338267)
In my completely non-expert opinion, I think it would also be a hard dataset to normalize across mic sensitivities/auto gain control/time of day/weather/phone orientation/etc.,
even if you got a billion people to submit readings.
Still, there have been previous attempts at this:
2013: https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/10/22/112756/noise-pol...
2019, with calibration: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00036...
2023, iOS only in the USA: https://deohs.washington.edu/noise-across-america-study
There's a bunch more on Google Scholar, actually.