NYPL mapping tool for crowd sourcing historical building features

[Merrick Lex Berman]

NYPL Building Inspector goes live. The online historical map tool logged 75,000 inspections in first 24 hrs. http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/ 

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watershed: Alewife Brook > Mystic River > Boston Harbor > Atlantic Ocean

[Leif Isaksen]

Ooh, that's nice :-) who's behind it at NYPL?

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[susanna.anas]

Here's the Wired article about it.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/phone-map-game-new-york-city/

The script was published earlier and the app was released now. Mauricio Giraldo wrote the code. Tim Waters / MapWarper is involved in Wikimaps. 

They claim to have 150 000 entries already yesterday.

I really like what they are doing.

Susanna