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NYC has released data for every tax lot in the city. Here is my first look
- mathattack 13y agoNice! The next question is "How do you make this useful to Commercial Real Estate?" Answer that and you have yourself a business!
- PLenz 13y agoThe PLUTO database is fascinating - but it also isn't a new thing - the real development is that the city has finally released it gratis under the open data law.
- andrewxhill 13y agoSure, you are allowed to redistribute it now too! http://blog.cartodb.com/post/57786792357/pluto-is-back http://blog.cartodb.com/post/57786792357/pluto-is-back
- hobs 13y agoAnother thing I didnt see (sorry if it already exists) would be something like a table of contents or an index of all the different maps. I think some of them are a lot more interesting than others and skipping multiple maps would be good.
- rxaxm 13y agoThis is real good stuff. One comment, though, why did you use this offensively horrible font? I've never gone in and changed a font style just to use a website
- andrewxhill 13y agoI'm a terrible designer. That is the only reason I have to offer :)
- jpatel3 13y agoNice representation of the data.
- mjn 13y agoThis is very nice. In Denmark we have a country-wide database of buildings with physical data about them (number of floors, square meters, number of units, etc.), and it's gratis-queryable at a small scale through a web interface [1], but to get the data in bulk you have to license it for a lot of money. Would be nice to see it going in the open-data direction. [1] https://www.ois.dk/ https://www.ois.dk/
- toomuchtodo 13y agoI'll try to scrape it if you want. I'm currently working on a project to scrape property tax data from every country in the US, and will be providing it for free via a JSON API and with an Openstreetmap mashup for visualization.
- bdon 13y agoGreat work! How did you create the isometric view of building floor counts? Also, the 'skip' button could be a little more prominent.
- andrewxhill 13y agoskip is bigger now! the iso views are done using mapnik, the tiling library used by CartoDB. So it is just a pretty simple style option, building-height: somevalue
- maxerickson 13y agoMapnik describes itself as a mapping application toolkit: http://mapnik.org http://mapnik.org Tiling might not convey that.
- andrewxhill 13y agoSorry, wrote that at 6am so probably wasn't as specific as I should have been. Thanks for including a link.
- quantumpotato_ 13y agoGreat job! Skip should be next?
- xbryanx 13y agoI think the NEXT and BACK words should be right under the body copy as well. I was about to navigate away thinking, "huh neat picture, but I sure wish there was some context," before I noticed the next button buried in the bottom corner of my screen. Great work on the map and story.
- prawn 13y agoI avoided it for a long time trying to look for a different way to progress to another page. After two screens and slow load times (my connection, I'd bet), I bailed confused and hoped to find more info here in the comments.
- anigbrowl 13y agoYes, it should be labeled 'next', not 'skip.' 'Skip' suggests you go to the end without looking at everything.
- andrewxhill 13y agoGood point, sorry about that... I'll get it fixed later today :)
- andrewxhill 13y agoWell... never mind, easy enough, so I just pushed a fix now
- ajkjk 13y agoThis is really neat.. but please, please give me a back button. A lot of the pictures were gone before they loaded for me on the slow internet I'm using.
- andrewxhill 13y agoAdded a back button
- HNLogInShit 13y agoDidn't Chicago do something like this recently too? Or was that just streets?
- sfbsfbsfb 13y agoVery nice!Thanks. Would be great to have an index so that 1) I can get an overview of what is available and 2) I can view what interests me instead of going through all the content.
- andrewxhill 13y agoHey, thanks for the comment! I had originally made this to loop on the wall during a PLUTO party :) so didn't add an index. I'll consider adding it next time I get a moment.