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@jehiah @NYCPlanning Thanks! This should now be fixed.

@NYCPlanning @NYCPlanningLabs FYI the SSL cert on roadview.planninglabs.nyc expired back in August (linked from zola.planning.nyc.gov )

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@MarketUrbanism It’s fixed! github.com/NYCPlanning/la…. And we are indeed hiring. See pinned tweet. :)

Anyway, back to ZoLa. Enter an address in the search bar. It can no longer look up addresses. A core function – gone! It had been deteriorating for a while, but I'm told that the last people who built it just left, so now I guess there's nobody left to fix it

NYC used to have a bad but usable map applet for zoning and property information, called ZoLa. A few years ago they hired a team to redo it, and really improved it. It's this: zola.planning.nyc.gov ...then they lost all of the people who built it, and now it doesn't work.

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Tell me your feelings about JavaScript. Gif response only.

Great team in #nyc government guided by principles (and practice!) of #opensource and building tools that promote #civictech - highly recommend! #tech #government #data

Joseph J Salvo. Thank you. I'd no idea the work you were doing. All these many, many years. Big shoes to fill. Massive gratitude to your commitment to our city. How N.Y.C.’s Population Expert Says the City Will Bounce Back nyti.ms/2PprTFt

How N.Y.C.’s Population Expert Says the City Will Bounce Back nytimes.com/2021/04/01/nyr… cc @NYCPlanningLabs @NYCPlanning

@MattH There's also a nerdy metaphor we love: "Data ages like wine, code ages like fish."

@NYCPlanningLabs There is that well-known labs-adjacent tweet about the timeline of rewrites! But seriously I also love app clones with small changes.

Hot take: Embrace the rewrite! Apps that are small enough to be rebuilt give newer developers a valuable "greenfield" opportunity while giving space to implement lessons learned & fresh approaches. Thoughts?

@MattH Ha! Didn't think about that but the Tweet is sincere!

@NYCPlanningLabs I agree, but it's also April 1, so I'm also suspicious 👀

Curious: what do you miss most about the #civictech world, pre-COVID? Being virtual means we've been a bit fatigued by the "tech" side of that coin and can't wait for more in-person Labby Hours. Someday soon!

It should say: "Select all squares with 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐒"

@SR_spatial Hi Steven, geosearch.planninglabs.nyc should be up and running again. We apologize for the inconvenience.

@NYCPlanningLabs Yes, thanks. Should we use that going forward? Or do you think the main geosearch URL will be fixed soon?

Hi @NYCPlanningLabs your geosearch service seems to be down labs-geosearch-docs.netlify.app Could you check and confirm? Thanks!

Please reach out if you notice any issues.

GeoSearch production is now back up! We apologize for the inconvenience. A postmortem to follow soon, but in short: we were upgrading our infrastructure to accommodate more regular address updates (via PAD) and a stale SSL certificate blocked incoming requests.

Experiencing a few issues with GeoSearch's DNS. In the meantime, you can use staging.geosearch.planninglabs.nyc as an API endpoint for querying. Note that the documentation site is also not able to query correctly. Updates to follow.