Other forms: windshield surveys
A windshield survey is a survey that's conducted from a car or other vehicle. The kind of information it gathers focuses on things like infrastructure and community amenities.
There are lots of different ways of gathering information, and different methods work best in different situations. A windshield survey is good when you want to gather data in a large area, so long as the thing that you're gathering data about can be seen from the road. These surveys are often used to better understand things like the condition of housing or how much people use local businesses or public spaces.