NYC Space/Time Directory ETL module: NYC Historical Streets

ETL module for NYPL’s NYC Space/Time Direcory. This Node.js module downloads, parses, and/or transforms NYC Historical Streets 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	`nyc-streets`
Title	NYC Historical Streets
Description	Historical streets traced from New York City fire insurance atlases and other maps
License	CC0
Contributors	Mauricio Giraldo (author) Bert Spaan (wrangler)
Sources	Shapefiles with streets traced from a selection of Map Warper layers
Homepage	https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/nyc-historical-streets

JSON Schema of Object data:

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "layerId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ID of Map Warper layer where street was traced from"
    },
    "borough": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Borough where street is located in"
    },
    "originalName": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Original name from Shapefile, before normalization"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "layerId",
    "borough",
    "originalName"
  ]
}

Available steps

download
transform

Usage

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

spacetime-etl nyc-streets[.<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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