Mapping The History Of Manhattan's Growth

Urban Layers is an incredible novel mapped visualization of Manhattan's edifice history. The map uses edifice structure information from PLUTO alongside Mapbox GL to practice a highly responsive too interactive tool to explore the history of edifice structure inwards fundamental New York.

The time-line business office provides a bully tool to explore the edifice history of Manhattan. You tin purpose the time-line to sentiment how many buildings were constructed during whatever menstruation of Manhattan's history. The time-line also includes a graph showing the divulge of buildings built inwards each year.

The time-line command may also hold upward used to speedily animate through the whole of Manhattan's structure history inwards ready lengths of time. For example, y'all tin ready the time-line for whatever decade (say 1970-1980). You tin too hence drag the time-line command backwards too forwards to view Manhattan's structure past times decade.

The purpose of Mapbox GL agency that the information loads amazingly speedily on the map equally y'all cypher through the time-line. It also agency that y'all tin correct click on the map to accommodate the map orientation (when the map start loads West is to a greater extent than or less at the elevation of the map - which helps to jibe around of Manhattan onto your monitor /screen).