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mgiraldo / manhattan-1854.geojson
Last active October 21, 2023 13:16
New York City Building Footprints to 42nd Street, 1854. GeoJSON file with polygons representing buildings in Downtown and Midtown Manhattan as of 1854. Attribute information includes building materials and description as well as street adress. This data was created and digitized through the New York Public Libraries use in historical fire insura…
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mgiraldo / map-libraries.geojson
Last active April 14, 2017 16:38
OUTDATED!! VISIT THE REPO HERE: https://github.com/mgiraldo/nyc-libraries-map/
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mgiraldo / map.geojson
Created November 4, 2016 02:14
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mgiraldo / places_start.csv
Created October 31, 2016 09:09
ansei edo places
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ID,English Name,Japanese Name,Latitude,Longitude,English Link,Japanese Link
1,Sakurada Gate,桜田門,35.6414,139.7677,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_Castle,https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%9F%E6%88%B8%E5%9F%8E
2,"Benten temple, Shinobazu Pond",不忍池弁天堂,35.6414,139.7677,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinobazu_Pond,https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8D%E5%BF%8D%E6%B1%A0
3,"Thunder Gate, Sensou-ji Temple",浅草寺雷門,35.6414,139.7677,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminarimon,https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%B7%E9%96%80
4,Center of Ryogoku bridge,両国橋,35.6414,139.7677,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dgoku_Bridge,https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%A1%E5%9B%BD%E6%A9%8B
5,Fukagawa Hachiman Shrine,深川・富岡八幡本堂,35.6414,139.7677,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomioka_Hachiman_Shrine,https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%8C%E5%B2%A1%E5%85%AB%E5%B9%A1%E5%AE%AE
6,Gate of Gokoku-ji Temple,護国寺山門,35.6414,139.7677,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gokoku-ji,https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AD%B7%E5%9B%BD%E5%AF%BA
7,Shinjuku 3-C
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mgiraldo / doggetts_1848.geojson
Last active February 2, 2016 19:18
Some prominent New Yorkers in 1848 in GeoJSON format (from Doggett's New York City Directory https://archive.org/details/doggettsnewyorkc1848dogg)
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mgiraldo / doggetts_1848.csv
Last active February 2, 2016 19:12
Some prominent New Yorkers in 1848 (from Doggett's New York City Directory https://archive.org/details/doggettsnewyorkc1848dogg)
We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: It looks like row 4 should actually have 10 columns, instead of 6. in line 3.
Name,Address,Page and column,Occupation,Directory link,Wikipedia link,NYPL link,Photo,Latitude,Longitude
John Jacob Astor jr.,"87 Prince, h. 37 Lafayette pl",page 31 left top,"(occasional poet, sickly and mentally unstable, never married or had children)",https://archive.org/stream/doggettsnewyorkc1848dogg#page/n37/mode/2up,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_family,http://archives.nypl.org/mss/141,,40.713,-74.006
William B. Astor,"87 Prince, h. 37 Lafayette pl",page 31 left top,"(property tycoon, became the richest man in the US)",https://archive.org/stream/doggettsnewyorkc1848dogg#page/n37/mode/2up,"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Backhouse_Astor,_Sr.",http://archives.nypl.org/mss/141,https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/William_Backhouse_Astor_Sr.jpg,40.713,-74.006
Thomas Addis Emmet,"45 William, h. Av. 7 c. W. 13th",page 141 left middle,lawyer (New York State Attorney General),https://archive.org/stream/doggettsnewyorkc1848dogg#page/n151/mode/2up,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A
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mgiraldo / nyc-community-districts.geojson
Created December 22, 2015 16:46
Community Districts (Clipped to Shoreline) converted to GeoJSON from the official NYC shapefile downloaded 22/12/2015 from http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/districts_download_metadata.shtml
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mgiraldo / cesium.d.ts
Last active May 16, 2023 11:27 — forked from icholy/cesium.d.ts
declare module Cesium {
export function defined(any): boolean;
export function defaultValue(a:any, b:any): any;
class RenderState {
static fromCache(any);
}
interface Promise<T> {
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mgiraldo / merged.geojson
Last active March 9, 2016 18:08
every place name consensus in http://buildinginspector.nypl.org (as of 2/10/2015)
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mgiraldo / mapas-101-es.md
Last active May 22, 2022 21:57
mapas 101 español

Del papel a la web: haz tus propios mapas interactivos.

Esta es una traducción de “From Paper Maps to the Web: A DIY Digital Maps Primer” realizada por Daniela Schütte, coordinadora del proyecto Memoria Chilena de la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile.

NOTA: hay terminología que debe mantenerse en inglés puesto que así debe escribirse en el código.

En noviembre del 2014, fui invitado a la 2a semana del libro digital organizado por la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. La idea era presentar los proyectos que estamos desarrollando en el NYP Labs y también, dictar un taller sobre herramientas para geolocalización de mapas. Pienso que puede ser útil compartir los contenidos de ese taller, ya que integra diversas herramientas y procesos que permiten que la cartografía digital sea, hoy en día, ac