For the concluding yoke of years building historic menses maps have been really popular. In these maps edifice footprints are colored to exhibit the historic menses of buildings. These maps supply a cracking overview of how cities together with towns convey developed over time.
Over the concluding twelvemonth the same colored edifice footprint technique has too been used to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than to exhibit the meridian of buildings. These edifice meridian maps are an splendid agency to visualize, inwards particular, where the tallest buildings are concentrated inwards cities.
For example, Jonathan Critchley has used information from City of Toronto Open Data to map the meridian of Toronto's buildings. The City of Toronto Building Height map colors edifice footprints past times the meridian of each building. If yous hover over private buildings on the map yous tin stance its meridian inwards meters together with whether the edifice is zoned equally residential, commercial or for another purpose.
Jonathon's map follows on from these other edifice meridian maps, released over the concluding twelve months: Building Heights inwards London, the Vancouver Building Heights map, the Melbourne Building Heights map together with the San Francisco Building Height map
