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danvk
Mapping photos of Old New York
and take you back to the map. (via jsvine)
A bunch of images with titles like "Newspapers - China Daily News Series No. 5." are getting geocoded to different points in Chinatown. I believe Google Maps is interpreting the...
Suggestion from David: once you zoom in far enough, all the markers look roughly the same shade of gray. It would be nice to dynamically change the range based on...
Old NYC uses the Google Maps geocoding API to convert cross streets to latitudes and longitudes. This mostly works fine, since the street grid hasn't changed too much in the...
https://oldnyc.org/#702881f-a: times out and shows a Cloudflare error page https://www.oldnyc.org/#702881f-a: loads just fine
The documentation in https://github.com/danvk/oldnyc/blob/master/nyc/howto.md is pretty good. But something like a Makefile would be better. Except not actually a Makefile. Hopefully there's a saner 21st century alternative.
Things to run: - black, ruff - pytest Since `photos.pickle` and `geocache.tgz` are part of the repo, I _could_ run the geocoder and check for diffs to `viewer/static/js/nyc-lat-lons-ny.js` as a...
This repo is slowly clawing its way out of 2009 era Python. Running all these tools over it will help finish the job.