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Interactive “Comparinator” maps launched for NYC Council districting
UPDATE Sept 7, 2012 The City Council Comparinator site is now embeddable for your website, blog, etc. Here’s how to use it: go to the site, zoom to a district and click to highlight it (or enter a...
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A Modest Proposal for NYC Tax Parcel Data
On behalf of all the urban planning students, local nonprofits, neighborhood groups, Community Boards, journalists, and others who’ve paid cold hard cash to the NYC Department of City Planning for the...
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A Modest Victory regarding NYC Tax Parcel Data
After I blogged this morning about the frustrations of the City Planning Department’s restrictions on mapped tax parcel data, I learned that the foundation of their “MapPLUTO” product is now available...
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Who Represents You in NYC
Today our Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center / CUNY joined with the League of Women Voters to launch an online service so anyone can identify their elected officials in New York City. The...
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NYC’s MapPLUTO is free!
Download away! http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml This essential corpus of public data is now (finally!) freely accessible. According to the metadata: Access Constraints: MapPLUTO...
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When it rains it pours: NYC GIS data floodgates opened
Lately NYC agencies have started to step up the pace in producing an impressive amount of publicly accessible GIS (and other) data. It’s a very good direction (and hopefully one that all agencies will...
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Blog Enough, and Time
Who has time to blog when @Twitter is so much fun? Tagged: blogging, Twitter
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New Subway Station in NYC: Hudson Yards
In September 2015, the MTA opened its first new subway station in NYC in decades. I’ve added the new station and extension of the 7 line to the Center for Urban Research’s (CUR’s) maps and underlying...
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Hidden Beauty in the NYC LION File
UPDATE At @chrislhenrick‘s request, I’ve posted a link below to a zipped version of the NYC LION data set in shapefile format (which I explore further in my post below). The NYC Dept of City Planning...
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eSpatiallyNY profile
Sam Wear — one of New York’s pre-eminent GIS leaders — published a fun interview with me about our mapping work at the CUNY Graduate Center. I’m honored!
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