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Are you sure it’s not just that there isn’t enough gradients to tell? Within 1 block of my house there are townhomes, a mansion, single family homes, 2 parks,
by kasey_junk 3y ago
Are you sure it’s not just that there isn’t enough gradients to tell?
Within 1 block of my house there are townhomes, a mansion, single family homes, 2 parks, mid rises, a hotel, real commercial, a high rise, an sro and a school.
The commercial, parks and hotel are accurately represented but only 1 set of townhouses are otherwise. And that’s the set that takes up a whole block.
Otherwise the mixed blocks all come up as single family. Which might just be a fidelity problem.
- kasey_junk 3y agoThe parks and school are ~mostly correct as well.
- tptacek 3y agoOh, the data is good, I just think there has to be a better color scheme for the residential areas (it needs to be green to fit the SimCity aesthetic, but there must be something else you can do).
- kasey_junk 3y agoI’m not convinced the data is good. At least in my neighborhood the zoning requirements are address by address and I’d be easily convinced coming up with a coloring scheme that attributes everything correctly is a hard computer science problem.
- tptacek 3y agoI'm just saying, to look at this map, you'd think Beverly and Lincoln Park were comparably zoned.
- jdksmdbtbdnmsm 3y ago>I’d be easily convinced coming up with a coloring scheme that attributes everything correctly is a hard computer science problem. It's not a computer science problem at all. It's literally just a matter of having a uniue color for each type of zone.
- kasey_junk 3y agoI looked it up this morning. The cities own map has accurate data for my area. They get around the color issue by overlaying the actual zoning code number over the zones.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoI like the idea of not using color to encode a high level of detail. SC2K breaks it down into dense and light zones (and changes the color accordingly) and that's it. There should be more detailed info in the tooltip for each parcel.
- arthurdenture 3y agoIs it possible that many of those uses predate the current zoning? There are numerous buildings in Chicago that would not be permitted by their current zoning.
- kasey_junk 3y agoI just looked it up on Chicagos map and no, at least the half dozen things I checked were all properly zoned.
- lukas099 3y agoThat’s crazy to me that you have all that within a block of where you live. Are you in an East Coast city or something?
- kasey_junk 3y agoChicago. My house is on this map.
- lukas099 3y agoSadly I never got to live in a tier one city and probably never will. Please enjoy as much as you can!