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[Owen Densmore]

​From a tweet:

Jeremy Ashkenas ‏@jashkenas  2h

If you knew how long @mapshaper and @haeyoun spent cropping each one of these 43,634 houses, you’d weep in awe:​

​Here's the article:

    ​

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/27/us/detroit-foreclosure-photo-mosaic.html

​It was done using street view!

   -- Owen​

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[Stephen Guerin]

Pretty amazing effort.  Seems like a 10 line script though :-)

On Jun 27, 2014 10:45 AM, "Owen Densmore" <[hidden email]> wrote:

From a tweet:

Jeremy Ashkenas @jashkenas  2h

If you knew how long @mapshaper and @haeyoun spent cropping each one of these 43,634 houses, you’d weep in awe:

Here's the article:

   

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/27/us/detroit-foreclosure-photo-mosaic.html

It was done using street view!

   -- Owen

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