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Archivistower
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Some of you may know that I like to take photos of buildings and compile data about them. I've finally managed to get it together enough to make a searchable website for my data. It's not exactly done, yet, but it's more or less there and so I've decided to introduce the forum to it.
TOBuilt
There are 7,286 buildings in Toronto described on the site, all but 100 or so with photos or other images. The buildings are searchable by a wide variety of criteria (building type, floors, status, date ranges, etc.). A few images are not showing up, I'll be fixing those as I find them.
There are also just short of 3000 companies (mostly architects) linked to the buildings, and you can search for buildings by architect's name.
Also, you can search by awards, for instance, for buildings in the database that won Masseys or Canadian Architect awards.
There is also a browsable neighbourhoods map that is a cool feature.
Of course, the data is only as complete as my photography, but there's enough there I think to promote interest.
What is incomplete still is the "Building Details" page. I want this to show the companies associated with a building on the same page as the details, but I haven't gotten it together yet. If you are on the site and something isn't working, I'm likely developing it. I also have someone editing the text of my static pages, so they will be updated one more time. Some of the info about awards is incomplete.
I hope you enjoy the site, and that it supports the discussions we have here.
TOBuilt
There are 7,286 buildings in Toronto described on the site, all but 100 or so with photos or other images. The buildings are searchable by a wide variety of criteria (building type, floors, status, date ranges, etc.). A few images are not showing up, I'll be fixing those as I find them.
There are also just short of 3000 companies (mostly architects) linked to the buildings, and you can search for buildings by architect's name.
Also, you can search by awards, for instance, for buildings in the database that won Masseys or Canadian Architect awards.
There is also a browsable neighbourhoods map that is a cool feature.
Of course, the data is only as complete as my photography, but there's enough there I think to promote interest.
What is incomplete still is the "Building Details" page. I want this to show the companies associated with a building on the same page as the details, but I haven't gotten it together yet. If you are on the site and something isn't working, I'm likely developing it. I also have someone editing the text of my static pages, so they will be updated one more time. Some of the info about awards is incomplete.
I hope you enjoy the site, and that it supports the discussions we have here.