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Nice. Are you doing this the same way they did The Netherlands?

I know I threw out the suggestions when I saw the Netherlands map that this could easily be done with PLUTO. Thanks for the great work. I can see my Apartment building was built in 1910.

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This is done with two different datasets, PLUTO and the building footprint dataset on https://nycopendata.socrata.com/.

Isn't building footprint included in the PLUTO corpus? Does nycopendata provide better building outlines?

You're right, there's something else called MapPLUTO: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml that seems to include building footprints. My bet is they're from the same source.

Right. That's what I was using when I was playing with the pluto data in openGl. Unfortunately/Fortunately some of you other programmers are much better than me at displaying this stuff in web apps.

MapPLUTO's footprints aren't for the buildings, but rather the boundaries of the property. It's a big shapefile for each borough. Totally worth exploring. It's got an insanely detailed metadata breakdown that explains a ton of the eccentricities.

As for the dates, most are guesses. If you plot the dates, you see they're overwhelmingly years that end in 0.

Thanks for the link to nycopendata. There is a plethora of interesting NYC geospatial data there that I was unaware of.

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