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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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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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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Earlier this week I posted an item about stagnation at NYC Data Mine as well as my thoughts more generally on the city’s #opendata policies and practices. Today I discuss another challenge regarding open data: data quality and poor metadata. Background We recently updated the OASIS community mapping website with several data sets: community gardens, subways, bus routes, [...]
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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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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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