2018-04-11 17:54:30 -04:00
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# Colouring London
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How many buildings are there in London? What are their characteristics? Where
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are they located and how do they contribute to the city? How adaptable are
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they? How long will they last, and what are the environmental and
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socio-economic implications of demolition?
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[Colouring London](http://colouring.london/) is a web-based citizen social
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science project designed to help address these questions by crowdsourcing and
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visualising twelve categories of information on London’s buildings.
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## Structure
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This repository will contain open-source code for the project which:
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- stores building footprint polygons and source metadata
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- allows site users to record building attribute data
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- serves map tiles rendered from collected data
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- allows site visitors to download the collected building attribute data
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Building attribute data collected as part of the project will be made available
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for download under a liberal open data license (likely ODbL).
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## A note from our sponsors
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Colouring London is being designed and built by the Centre for Advanced Spatial
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Analysis (CASA), University College London and funded by Historic England.
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Ordnance Survey is providing building footprints required to collect the data,
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facilitated by the GLA, and giving access to its API and technical support.
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