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This is amazing. Unfortunately the 1960s, 70s and 80s seem to have been censored in the historic aerial maps. It's a very important period in NYC construction h
by bflesch 2mo ago
This is amazing. Unfortunately the 1960s, 70s and 80s seem to have been censored in the historic aerial maps. It's a very important period in NYC construction history where buildings with interesting shapes kept popping up.
The gap between 1951 and 1996 can be seen in: https://github.com/CityOfNewYork/nyc-geo-metadata/blob/main/Metadata/Metadata_AerialImagery.md https://github.com/CityOfNewYork/nyc-geo-metadata/blob/main/...
- ssl-3 2mo agoCensored is a very strong word. Are you sure they aren't just lost/never-digitized/unlicensable/Occam's-razor/something-else? Because, I mean: Historic Aerials[1] seems to cover that period pretty well, despite their resolutely awful user interface and extraordinary reluctance towards allowing useful links. [1]: https://www.historicaerials.com/ https://www.historicaerials.com/
- C-x_C-f 2mo ago> Censored is a very strong word I believe GP is using the stats/data science meaning of the word "censor" which is a neutral term simply indicating missing/obscured data (without implication of intent) [0] [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/censor#Verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/censor#Verb
- bflesch 2mo agoI'm confident it's been censored and people have been killed to keep this story under wraps.
- bflesch 2mo agoCheck out the 1951 layer [1], it has a huge gap in the rockaway beach / hammels area which is not present in the 1924 layer or any other layers. Historicaerials.com does not offer 1951 or 1924, it only offers 1954 and later. The gap in the 1951 aerials is around the 40°34'51.42"N 73°49'54.81"W coordinates in the Rockaway Beach/Hammels area. From an organizational perspective the gap makes sense because they took the 1951 aerial pictures, then they noticed several symbols that are definitely not aligned with US winning WW2, and then they removed/replaced those buildings and took the 1954 aerials to confirm and actually deliver an aerial without those bad symbols. This is not baseless speculation because it neatly ties into a chain of really badly-shaped buildings and construction projects in other places - NYC would've been the most in-your-face one. In the limited footage from 1954 onwards the shapes of new construction still resembles the original "very bad" shape (especially depending on garden layout), but any of those X-shaped building has plausible deniability and could be anything from "normal" design to a KKK cross. [1] https://nyc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers=bca6c3f866f844b490925cc9c26d2e40 https://nyc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers...