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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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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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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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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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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