New York’s 1.67 Million Buildings Colored by Age / / No Comments The craze for ;building age maps seems to have faded in recent years, which is a shame because I think they can reveal a surprising amount about how a city has grown and changed over time. When you map the age of every building, patterns of development, expansion and redevelopment can suddenly become much easier to see in a way that is hard to grasp from standard historical records. New York in 1.67 Million Buildings is bucking the trend and is also a particularly impressive example of a building age map. The map colours New York’s buildings according to the decade in which they were constructed, creating an extraordinary colorful patchwork of the city’s architectural history. Zoom... more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: 1.67, Buildings, Colored, Million, York's
SimCity Meets AI: Exploring New York’s New Digital Twin / / No Comments NYCSim is a truly impressive digital twin for New York City. Part real-time spatial platform and part living sandbox, this browser-based simulator allows you to explore a virtual Manhattan from the comfort of your own home. By pulling in live municipal transit data, real-time air quality metrics, and local weather feeds, the platform transforms a static city plan into a living, breathing map.& Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: digital, Exploring, Meets, SimCity, Twin, York's
How Well Do You Know New York’s Subway? / / No Comments Following the huge success of his London Tube Memory Game Benjamin Tran Dinh released a New York subway version of the game, called the New York City Subway Memory Game.Benjamin’s game requires you to name all 472 New York City subway stations. The game is therefore more of a marathon than a sprint and I suspect will take you at least a few hours to complete. If you don’t have that much time to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: know, Subway, Well, York's