Old School New York is an historical 3D map of a few blocks of Lower East Side inwards New York City. The edifice footprint information for this map comes from the New York Public Library's Building Inspector API. The NYPL's Building Inspector tool is beingness used to extract, right in addition to analyze information from historical maps of New York.
The edifice footprints from this crowd-sourced seek are available from the API. The edifice footprints on this Old School New York map come upwards from canvass numbers 174, 176, 177, 178 in addition to 179.
The edifice footprints from the NYPL's Building Inspector API are returned inwards the GeoJSON format. This agency it is a elementary chore to add together the footprints to OSM Buidings. However the edifice footprint information from Building Inspector does non convey whatever elevation information attached. Therefore for this map I made all the buildings 12 meters high. This is a wild gauge on my purpose in addition to almost definitely inaccurate.
In gild to brand the map I used Webkid's vivid tutorial, Interactive 3D Maps With OSMBuildings. I also stole most of his code.
In summary - this 3D map has inaccurate edifice heights. The engagement for the map is also unknown. However, these major quibbles aside, I recall the map does demonstrate how the NYPL's Building Inspector information tin move used to brand 3D maps of New York from the library's historical maps.
