Portland,
in little pieces.

Familiar streets. Particular houses.
A little light in every neighborhood.

Find your little corner

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How this city is made

Each building follows its mapped exterior footprint. Available City records supply heights, roof categories and separate building parts.

One Ladd’s block has address-specific roof, porch, window and siding features from historic surveys and property records. Their dimensions, placement and paint are interpretations. Elsewhere, unmeasured roof forms and facade details are illustrations. The ground is flat; current condition is not surveyed.

The LiDAR roof study fits one home’s main roof planes to an open 2019 scan. Small details and current condition remain unverified.

PortlandMaps open data · USGS / NOAA LiDAR · Three.js license

Postcards drawn by this map: Ladd’s at golden hour · the same street after dark · Ladd Circle after dark. The light and the lit windows are illustrations.

Preparing the city