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Adventures in Mapmaking : How to Map the Age of Buildings in Your Hometown - Wired Science
▻http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/how-to-map-building-ages-in-your-home-town

You may have seen some of the beautiful maps of building ages that have been cropping up around the internet. I first noticed an amazing one of Portland, and then another great one of Brooklyn. I decided I wanted to try to make one of San Francisco, but, as I still know very little about making maps, I knew I’d need help.

So I called up Thomas Rhiel of the independent journalism site BKLYNR.com. Rhiel was willing to help, and it turns out he was just the right person to advise me. His map of Brooklyn building ages was his first foray into mapmaking, so he had just muddled his way down the same path I was about to navigate.

I’m going to tell you exactly how I made this map. I hope that people with little or no experience making maps will be able to use this as a guide to getting started on a map of their own hometown. And I also hope expert mapmakers will chime in to tell us how we can improve our maps.

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BKLYNR | Block by Block, Brooklyn’s Past and Present

►http://bklynr.com/block-by-block-brooklyns-past-and-present

via FlowingData, l’oeuvre me fait penser indirectement à la magnifique aquarelle de @odilon

Block by Block, Brooklyn’s Past and Present

By Thomas Rhiel

On my weekly walk to get groceries, I pass a row of brownstones — some well-kempt and majestic, some fossil-like and crumbling — bookended by a gleaming, square-windowed silver tower. It’s an architectural contrast of a kind that’s commonplace throughout Brooklyn.

The borough’s a patchwork of the old and new, but traces of its history aren’t spread evenly. There are 320,000-odd buildings in Brooklyn, and I’ve plotted and shaded each of them according to its year of construction. The result is a snapshot of Brooklyn’s evolution, revealing how development has rippled across certain neighborhoods while leaving some pockets unchanged for decades, even centuries.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ms158bdl3d0kpo7/brooklyn.png

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