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Consider importing National Register of Historic Places dataset/concordance #501

Open stepps00 opened 8 years ago

stepps00 commented 8 years ago

The National Park District's National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) program maintains a dataset of Historic Places in the US, available here. We should consider importing this data in some capacity, or adding concordance with existing records.

When updating neighbourhood records in Philadelphia, it was found that Elfreth's Alley Historic District (a microhood) has a unique ID (66000681) in the NRHP. This ID can be used to search for information about that place, see: Elfreth's Alley Historic District.

This data is publicly available, as stated on the Permissions page of each "place." Described below:

No Restriction - The information is neither copyrighted nor has any 
other use restrictions related to it being intellectual property. 
For that reason, this information may be distributed to the NPS 
and public.
nvkelso commented 8 years ago

+1

Are most of these venues?

On Oct 18, 2016, at 13:32, Stephen Epps notifications@github.com wrote:

The National Park District's National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) program maintains a dataset of Historic Places in the US, available here. We should consider importing this data in some capacity, or adding concordance with existing records.

When updating neighbourhood records in Philadelphia, it was found that Elfreth's Alley Historic District (a microhood) has a unique ID (66000681) in the NRHP. This ID can be used to search for information about that place, see: Elfreth's Alley Historic District.

This data is publicly available, as stated on the Permissions page of each "place." Described below:

No Restriction - The information is neither copyrighted nor has any other use restrictions related to it being intellectual property. For that reason, this information may be distributed to the NPS and public. ― You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

stepps00 commented 8 years ago

I've spot-checked the data and... it's a mixed bag. A sample of the resources:

Lassiter House                                                                                                          
Daniel Pratt Historic District                                                                                          
Montgomery--Janes--Whittaker House                                                                                      
Bell House                                                                                                              
Mount Sinai School                                                                                                      
Battles Wharf Historic District                                                                                         
First Baptist Church                                                                                                    
Killcreas House                                                                                                         
Allen House                                                                                                             
Hamner House                                                                                                            
Orrell House                                                                                                            
Blakeley                                                                                                                
Methodist Episcopal Church, South                                                                                       
McMillan House

The dataset contains historical places, which can either be a point location or a geometry and various point venues. Some of the historical places are in WOF already as neighbourhoods or microhoods... the nice thing about this dataset is that, for the most part, these "places" won't change or move anytime soon.

stepps00 commented 8 years ago

NPS maintains documentation about what files are in their geodatabase here. The relevant files in the geodatabase are:

stepps00 commented 7 years ago

Note: a copy of the database is now in the S3 misc/Issue 501 folder.