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How HN took it
4 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.28.
Execution: 0 for, 9 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Beautiful, best visualization on PLUTO data seen so far
From 1 comment
This is beautiful. Best visualization on top of PLUTO data I've seen so far.
akanet on HN
Objections
Many dates are wrong for old buildings, e.g. Fraunces Tavern shown as 1900
From 2 comments
Fraunces Tavern[1], the oldest surviving building in Manhattan, built in 1671 should have been glowing red in the Financial District. In this visualization it is shaded blue for…
aleyan on HNYeah I immediately looked down there also. I know in the PLUTO data a lot of the entries have a year build and a number of years renovated. Even then though it appears that the…
smoorman1024 on HN
Outliers like Columbia and Natural History Museum dated wrong
From 3 comments
Why is the entirety of Columbia University labeled as 1901? Low Library was built in 1895 [1], and a number of the buildings on campus date from when the area was a mental asylum…
santaclaus on HNThe museum of natural history was not built post-1995. It's probably giving that as the date because they added the new planetarium in 2000. Which raises the question, is this…
eeeeaaii on HNThe Museum of Natural History was built in the early 20th centuryish not 1995. Does not portend well.
slt555q on HN
Map showed a black box for some users and was slow to load
From 2 comments
Hrm, I just see a black box: http://i.imgur.com/ZDJzT62.png (Chrome 30, OS X).
nicksergeant on HNYeah, my server is a bit overloaded. Working on that now.
bdon on HN
Requests
Overlay with Google Street View
From 1 comment
Would be even cooler with integrated Google Street View!
someperson on HN
Combine with 3D building data to show skyline change
From 1 comment
Who wants to mash up this information with the 3d information on buildings in NYC to see how the skyline in NYC has changed over the last century?
basseq on HN
Questions
Is it showing construction date or most recent renovation date
From 1 comment
The museum of natural history was not built post-1995. It's probably giving that as the date because they added the new planetarium in 2000. Which raises the question, is this…
eeeeaaii on HN
Is the footprint data from PLUTO or a separate dataset
From 1 comment
Isn't building footprint included in the PLUTO corpus? Does nycopendata provide better building outlines?
smoorman1024 on HN
Alternatives named
Netherlands building age map
From 1 comment
Nice. Are you doing this the same way they did The Netherlands? I know I threw out the suggestions when I saw the Netherlands map that this could easily be done with PLUTO.…
smoorman1024 on HN
MapPLUTO
From 1 comment
You're right, there's something else called MapPLUTO: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml that seems to include building footprints. My bet is they're from the…
bdon on HN