# Colouring London
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How many buildings are there in a city? What are their characteristics? Where
are they located and how do they contribute to the city? How adaptable are
they? How long will they last, and what are the environmental and
socio-economic implications of demolition?
Colouring Cities is a web-based citizen social
science project designed to help address these questions by crowdsourcing and
visualising twelve categories of information on the buildings in our cities.
## Structure
This repository will contain open-source code for the project which:
- stores building footprint polygons and source metadata
- allows site users to record building attribute data
- serves map tiles rendered from collected data
- allows site visitors to download the collected building attribute data
Building attribute data collected as part of the project will be made available
for download under a liberal open data license
([ODbL](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/)).
## Setup and run
#### Forking the Core Repository
If you are working with us as part of this GitHub organisation, then a repository and team may already have been set up for you. If you are already usign the repository and want to add a new project, perhaps because you are expanding to additional cities, then please following these instructions to create a Fork of the core repository: [docs/working-with-colouring-core](docs/working-with-colouring-core.md).
#### Customise the Application:
You can customise the Colouring Cities application by changing the values in the following file:
`app/src/cc-config.json`
For more information on the config system, see [docs/configuring-colouring-cities](docs/configuring-colouring-cities.md).
#### Test the application:
You can try out the Colouring Cities application by setting up your own development environment, which includes the option to load test data from OpenStreetMaps (OSM). See [docs/setup-dev-environment](docs/setup-dev-environment.md).
_Last updated March 2022_
#### Create a production version of the application:
We also have documentation on setting up a production environment here: [docs/setup-production-environment](docs/setup-production-environment.md).
_Last updated December 2021_
**Note:** There are additional useful documentation within the `/docs` folder.
## Acknowledgements
Colouring London was set up at the Centre for Advanced Spatial
Analysis (CASA), University College London and is now based at The Alan Turing Institute.
Ordnance Survey is providing building footprints required to collect the data,
facilitated by the Greater London Authority (GLA), and giving access to its API
and technical support.
## License
Colouring London/Colouring Cities
Copyright (C) 2018-2022 Tom Russell and Colouring Cities contributors
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see .
## Contributors
Thanks goes to these wonderful people ([emoji key](https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors#emoji-key)):
This project follows the [all-contributors](https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors) specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
Even more thanks go to Colouring Cities contributors, funders, project partners, consultees,
advisers, supporters and friends - [everyone involved in the
project](https://www.pages.colouring.london/whoisinvolved).
