The www.OASISnyc.net mapping team has been working with the great folks at New York Public Library’s Map Division to integrate digitized historic maps aligned to the city’s current street grid. But as we were working with Map Division staff to incorporate their maps, an amazing find at the World Trade Center construction site prompted us to [...]
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As promised, I’ve created an updated GIS data set of subway routes in New York based on MTA’s latest GTFS data, which I’ve posted below for anyone to use. (I’ve also converted the latest MTA GTFS data to GIS format for NYC Transit bus routes, following up on my earlier post this spring.) Scroll to the [...]
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At the Google I/O developer event this week, an impressive item was included in the announcement about the latest Javascript Maps API (v3). Now you can use Javascript to change the style of Google’s base map, in effect creating your own CSS for Google Maps. Yesterday’s Google Geo Developers Blog highlighted the new feature and capabilities, [...]
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It’s been too long since my last blog post. Have been quite busy with work, and even though Twitter is a microblogging service, sending a tweet now and then really isn’t an excuse to keep up my actual blog. One of the projects keeping me (very) busy is our work to help boost participation in [...]
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Just a quick note that the online journal V1 Magazine today posted an interview with me about the CUNY Mapping Service’s online mapping work. I’m honored that Matt Ball asked to talk with me about our work — he has interviewed some pretty impressive people over the years and it’s a thrill to have our [...]
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This post starts with an exploration of what happens when bloggers don’t source their material (in this case, maps), but ends with a cool discovery of a resource for all you dasymetric mappers out there (you know who you are). Earlier this month my wife forwarded me a link to a Gothamist Map of the [...]
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UPDATED 8/21/09: Newsday (Long Island’s daily newspaper) reproduced an island-wide version of one of our maps in their article today (though the map only appeared in the print version of the paper). People are gearing up across the US for the 2010 Census — not just the Census Bureau, of course, but organizations large and small [...]
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Several recent items have called attention to the growing effort to make really good-looking maps online – see Matt Ball on the coming “cartographic explosion” and Peter Batty’s posts highlighting the great maps from OSM and CloudMade and of course Stamen Design (hardly an inclusive list, but it’s already a long-ish intro sentence). It’s an [...]
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