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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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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Today our team at the CUNY Graduate Center updated the www.OASISnyc.net mapping site with lots of new data. There’s more to come by summer’s end, but here’s the latest: The biggest change is that we’ve added the latest community garden inventory from GrowNYC. Over a year in the making, it comes just in time to [...]
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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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Last week’s UrbanOmnibus features an article I wrote about a new and completely revamped version of the OASIS mapping website in New York City — see “A new OASIS for New York“. (Also see an earlier blog post about how we designed the cartography in the new OASIS maps.) OASIS is the Open Accessible Space [...]
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