Mapping The Historic Menstruum Of Chicago's Buildings

Back inwards July Wired published a overnice tutorial on how to orbit a edifice historic menstruum map. In Adventures inwards Mapmaking Wired's MapLab non alone provided a peachy tutorial on how to map the ages of a city's buildings simply too created an example 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 orbit upwardly one's heed a building's historic menstruum from its color) in addition to it is too missing whatsoever filtering options. Both these problems convey been addressed inwards Shaun Jacobsen's Chicago Building Age Map.

This map non alone includes a overnice legend (so yous tin flaming say what the edifice colors represent) it too includes the choice to filter the buildings shown on the map past times their twelvemonth of construction. This filtering choice agency that yous tin flaming select to visualize alone the city's oldest buildings on the map. Alternatively, if yous desire to stance the city's newest buildings, yous tin flaming visualize alone those buildings constructed this century.

The map too allows yous to mouse-over whatsoever of the private buildings on the map to stance its twelvemonth of construction.