MTA subway data in GIS format

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 [...]

Thoughts about Google’s Styled Maps announcement

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, [...]

GIS and Census participation

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 [...]

Mapping “hard to count” areas for 2010 Census

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 [...]

Online cartography for richly layered maps

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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