NYC Space/Time Directory ETL module: Building Inspector

ETL module for NYPL’s NYC Space/Time Direcory. This Node.js module downloads, parses, and/or transforms Building Inspector data, and creates a NYC Space/Time Directory dataset.

Data

The dataset created by this ETL module’s transform step can be found in the data section of the NYC Space/Time Directory website.

Details

ID	`building-inspector`
Title	Building Inspector
Description	Data from the Building Inspector API; contains placenames, address numbers and building footprints obtained from 19th century fire insurance atlases included in the Atlases of New York City Collection at The New York Public Library.
License	CC0
Contributors	Bert Spaan (wrangler) Mauricio Giraldo (author) Building Inspector contributors (author)
Sources	Building footprints and house numbers, after consensus was determined by Building Inspector's algorithms Building names and toponyms transcribed from maps Map sheets from Map Warper
Homepage	http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/

JSON Schema of Object data:

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
  "oneOf": [
    {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Building",
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "required": [
        "sheetId",
        "layerId",
        "mapId"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "sheetId": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Building Inspector map sheet ID"
        },
        "layerId": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Map Warper layer ID"
        },
        "mapId": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Map Warper map ID"
        },
        "colors": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Crowdsourced color of building",
          "minItems": 1,
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "borough": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "NYC borough of map layer"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Address",
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "required": [
        "number",
        "sheetId",
        "layerId",
        "mapId"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "number": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "House number of address, transcribed from map"
        },
        "sheetId": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Building Inspector map sheet ID"
        },
        "layerId": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Map Warper layer ID"
        },
        "mapId": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Map Warper map ID"
        },
        "borough": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "NYC borough of map layer"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Available steps

download
transform

Usage

git clone https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/etl-building-inspector.git /path/to/etl-modules
cd /path/to/etl-modules/etl-building-inspector
npm install

spacetime-etl building-inspector[.<step>]

See http://github.com/nypl-spacetime/spacetime-etl for information about Space/Time's ETL tool. More Space/Time ETL modules can be found on GitHub.

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