New York State, like all other states, is in the midst of redrawing its legislative district lines. To help you follow along, our team at the Center for Urban Research has launched an interactive redistricting map for New York. We collaborated with The New York World to develop the maps (though we encourage anyone and everyone [...]
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UPDATE February 5, 2012 You can visualize these proposed districts in relation to the current New York State Senate and Assembly districts with our new interactive redistricting map. We developed the interactive map in collaboration with The New York World, and here’s an article using the maps to describe the redistricting process in the Empire [...]
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Our team at the CUNY Graduate Center has enhanced the OASISnyc.net mapping site with new data and features to visualize neighborhood change across the city. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the updates help provide context for the transformation taking place in lower Manhattan, as well as in other key areas of [...]
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The latest tracking information for Hurricane Irene (as of Friday morning, 8/26) shows that the storm is likely going to pass east of New York City and make a head on collision with Long Island. Newsday is reporting that it will hit western Suffolk County’s south shore on Saturday with “tropical-storm-force winds” and then ramp [...]
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UPDATED (8/25/11 9am): We’ve added a temporary map layer on OASIS showing the locations of NYC’s hurricane evacuation centers. Here’s the link: http://bit.ly/oBsUY8 . It’s easy to use: Hover your mouse over each one to highlight it (the site details will also be highlighted in the panel on the right). Click on a map marker [...]
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Our team at the Center for Urban Research (at the CUNY Graduate Center) has updated our interactive maps showing race/ethnicity patterns from 2000 and 2010 in major cities across the US. We’ve enhanced the maps in several ways: Added more cities. We now have 15 major urban regions mapped across the US (Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, [...]
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This summer the Center for Architecture in New York is all about maps. One of the main exhibits at the Center, “Mapping the Cityscape”, features a dozen or so wall-mounted 8-foot-high maps of Manhattan — different representations and views from 1609 to the present. Several panel discussions are accompanying the exhibit, including two this week [...]
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Our team at the Center for Urban Research (at the CUNY Graduate Center) has launched a set of maps showing race/ethnicity patterns from 2000 and 2010 in major cities across the US. The maps combine several mapping/web technologies that offer a new way of visualizing population change. This post explains how we did it. (And [...]
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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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