Back inward July Wired published a overnice tutorial on how to produce a edifice historic menstruum map. In Adventures inward Mapmaking Wired's MapLab non alone provided a cracking tutorial on how to map the ages of a city's buildings simply likewise created an event map visualizing the ages of Chicago's buildings.
The Wired Chicago map is OK simply it is missing a legend (so it is hard to produce upwards one's involve heed a building's historic menstruum from its color) as well as it is likewise missing whatsoever filtering options. Both these problems accept been addressed inward Shaun Jacobsen's Chicago Building Age Map.
This map non alone includes a overnice legend (so yous tin nation what the edifice colors represent) it likewise includes the selection to filter the buildings shown on the map yesteryear their yr of construction. This filtering selection agency that yous tin select to visualize alone the city's oldest buildings on the map. Alternatively, if yous desire to persuasion the city's newest buildings, yous tin visualize alone those buildings constructed this century.
The map likewise allows yous to mouse-over whatsoever of the private buildings on the map to persuasion its yr of construction.
