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Just added LA County. I spot checked a few places I know, seems to be pretty accurate.

I added LA County data, and checked it against where I group up and where my mother and father grew up. Seems reasonably accurate so far.

Yep, that was my misconfiguration of the CloudFlare cache. Hopefully fixed now.

My mom (who is 97) has a vivid memory of seeing FDR in 1935 -- the whole extended family took the the Red Car from Compton to downtown to see his motorcade. She remembered the elec…

Thank you! Great link! And here is one that is just fun to watch because of Huell Howser -- Tallest Building | Visiting with Huell Howser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ziEDhCPjO…

I think the best intro to LA is Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner (it's really about the entire West and its relationship to water, but I think the first few chapters explain LA bett…

Yes, great point. What was torn down, burned, destroyed, etc. along the way isn't here. This is the surviving city, not the city as it was.

Exactly this -- This is more like the construction date of buildings that have survived. Everything demolished, burned, or replaced is invisible. Probably should put that front and…

The waves are partly real and partly me. LA genuinely built in bursts. The 1920s and the postwar decade each account for over 230,000 buildings still standing, and the 1930s and 19…

Did not think of that - yes that is a really interesting idea. Totally different way with interacting with data. I'm going to ponder that...

Yes, this is incredibly similar to the pipeline I ended up with -- https://github.com/kfarr/zoningviz/blob/main/HOW_IT_WORKS.md The other thing I learned is that some of the data s…

Yes, good point. The LA City data was rich, but the other communities have data in other places. I will see what I can do.

One the experiences for me that never gets old is coming in to LAX (flight path East to West) and the sprawl just goes on forever. The other crazy thing that 60% of the population …

This started as a data puzzle. There is a lot of public data but it's hosted by for-profit companies and the data models don't seem to be coherent (probably lots of good reasons fo…

Good idea! Let me work on that...

I joined the county's 2020 lidar building footprints (LARIAC) to the assessor roll, so every one of the 1,129,558 buildings inside the City of LA has a footprint, a height, and a y…