Mapped history of buildings in the 8th district of Budapest

Inspired by a post of Urbanista blog that featured a Dutch project where all the buildings of the country were put on a map, coloured by their age, I revived my visions to implement the same for some Hungarian places, namely Budapest.

Of course this requires a lot of time and also adequate data so I chose to start with the 8th district for the following reasons: 1. I am an eager 8th district patriot; 2. This is one of the most diverse of Budapest's districts in architectural means as well; 3. Data for the age of buildings is available on the website of the local group of the Socialist Party; 4. The overview map of the district zoning restrictions is really useful for this purpose since it has building outlines on it as well.

Detail from the map, around Horváth Mihály tér

By several hours of work the map became colourful with some exceptions: it is difficult to get data for industrial buildings and it is also difficult to determine the age of some one-storey houses. Some mistakes could be there as well since the database is not 100% exact - the Socialist Party website probably worked from a volume by Attila Déry about the architectural topography of Budapest.

Looking at the colour key one can see the main features: most of the district was built up between 1875 and 1900 (red) and the biggest "bites" are from the 70s (light blue - Szigony utca Estate) and nowadays (dark green - Corvin Project). Most of the really old houses (more than 150 years, yellow and orange) can be found in Palotanegyed but there are some in Karácsony Sándor utca as well.

Here is the result (in high resolution) - I am still looking for opportunities to load it up somewhere of an easier use (like OpenStreetMap). Meanwhile some other districts are being done.

Have fun viewing the map!