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danvk
Mapping photos of Old New York
I see many warnings of the form: `Received message of type object from http://oldnyc.github.io, expected a string`:  I believe this has something...
To do: - [x] Discuss OCR work and link to blog posts - [x] Incorporate Maira's content about Photographic Views of NYC - [ ] Call out the data for...
Particularly on tall screens, the gap can get quite large:  It should either be pegged to the image, or in some other corner where this isn't a problem.
Noticed this as an issue while demoing on a spotty WiFi connection. If it takes many seconds to load data for the images, then there's no indication that work is...
e.g. when you go to http://www.oldnyc.org/#722078f-b, the focused image is the very last thing on the page to visibly load. Ideally it would be the first.
There's 55px of vertical space at the top of the grid being used for absolutely nothing:  If the grid went to the...
A few examples: - [702198b](http://images.nypl.org/?id=702198b&t=w) — text on brown backing paper - [706410b](http://images.nypl.org/?id=706410b&t=w) — brown backing with text - [709457b](http://images.nypl.org/?id=709457b&t=w) — grayscale with text but no OCR - [729236b](http://images.nypl.org/?id=729236b&t=w) — ...
I'm currently doing this with the OCR'd text directly, mostly out of expedience. Lines with similar widths are joined. But it would be better to do this with the bounding...
http://leafletjs.com/ A few upsides I could see: - Faster page loads? - Faster zoom in/out with lots of pins? - Could rotate Manhattan to be vertical - Would enable offline...