This 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.
skip 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
Another 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.
The 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.
I 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.
I 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.
Very 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.
Hey, 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 I had originally made this to loop on the wall during a PLUTO party :) so didn't add an index.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.
This 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.
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.
