A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning

Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by kasey_junk on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @10:37PM (#38778848)

Are you sure it’s not just that there isn’t enough gradients to tell?

Within 1 block of my house there are townhomes, a mansion, single family homes, 2 parks, mid rises, a hotel, real commercial, a high rise, an sro and a school.

The commercial, parks and hotel are accurately represented but only 1 set of townhouses are otherwise. And that’s the set that takes up a whole block.

Otherwise the mixed blocks all come up as single family. Which might just be a fidelity problem.

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by tptacek on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @11:21PM (#38779068)

Oh, the data is good, I just think there has to be a better color scheme for the residential areas (it needs to be green to fit the SimCity aesthetic, but there must be something else you can do).

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by kasey_junk on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @11:51PM (#38779203)

I’m not convinced the data is good. At least in my neighborhood the zoning requirements are address by address and I’d be easily convinced coming up with a coloring scheme that attributes everything correctly is a hard computer science problem.

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by tptacek on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @12:00AM (#38779243)

I'm just saying, to look at this map, you'd think Beverly and Lincoln Park were comparably zoned.

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by jdksmdbtbdnmsm on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @01:01AM (#38779499)

>I’d be easily convinced coming up with a coloring scheme that attributes everything correctly is a hard computer science problem.

It's not a computer science problem at all. It's literally just a matter of having a uniue color for each type of zone.

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by kasey_junk on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @07:52AM (#38781475)

I looked it up this morning. The cities own map has accurate data for my area. They get around the color issue by overlaying the actual zoning code number over the zones.

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by inferiorhuman on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @12:55AM (#38779474)

I like the idea of not using color to encode a high level of detail. SC2K breaks it down into dense and light zones (and changes the color accordingly) and that's it.

There should be more detailed info in the tooltip for each parcel.

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by kasey_junk on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @10:45PM (#38778903)

The parks and school are ~mostly correct as well.

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by arthurdenture on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @12:39AM (#38779422)

Is it possible that many of those uses predate the current zoning? There are numerous buildings in Chicago that would not be permitted by their current zoning.

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by kasey_junk on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @07:53AM (#38781480)

I just looked it up on Chicagos map and no, at least the half dozen things I checked were all properly zoned.

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by lukas099 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @01:57AM (#38779718)

That’s crazy to me that you have all that within a block of where you live. Are you in an East Coast city or something?

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by kasey_junk on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @07:42AM (#38781415)

Chicago. My house is on this map.

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Re:A SimCity Interactive Map of Chicago's Zoning by lukas099 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @03:24PM (#38859333)

Sadly I never got to live in a tier one city and probably never will. Please enjoy as much as you can!

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