Two NYC-related GIS developments
20 June 2009 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | No comments
Bytes of the Big Apple RSS feed
The Department of City Planning's Bytes of the Big Apple family of data, applications and base map files now has an RSS feed of new product releases and notices about existing products.
Beta version of OASIS
The beta version of OASIS is now online and the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center is looking for feedback.
A video tutorial of the site's new features is available at http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/oasis/tutorial.htm and a summary of how the OASIS maps have changed is located at http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/oasis/about.html.
via the GISMO Yahoo! Group.
gCensus—Free online GIS powered by Google Earth
14 March 2007 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 2 comments
via Donna Genzmer:
All right, this is what I like to see: power to the people, public participation style, open source applications! gCensus was built by a Ph.D. student in computer science at Stanford University who was fed up with the slowly rendered, crappy display of the Census Bureau's online mapping interface. His question (our question): why can't people have access to dynamic, high-resolution maps without paying the ginormous bucks for professional GIS software? His answer: gCensus
It's "an effort to make geographic data freely and easily accessible to the public, without the need for expensive GIS software packages. With Google's excellent free mapping program Google Earth, you can use this site to visualize a wide variety of data best displayed on a map. Currently, only the US Census 2000's Summary File 1 (displaying population characteristics such as race and age) is available for mapping."
Right now, though, gCensus is more proof-of-concept than ready-to-release application. It needs to integrate more datasets, and it would probably benefit from other eyes looking at the code. So, here's the flip side to radical democracy—with free software comes great responsibilities. "The student" is looking for development help and hardware and hosting donations. Contact him at gcensus [at] gmail [dot] com and let's make this happen!
Milwaukee in ArcNews!
11 March 2007 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | No comments
The City of Milwaukee was mentioned in the latest issue of ArcNews (a quarterly publication of ESRI) for its use of GIS and GPS technologies as part of a remedial excavation project at a brownfields property located in Milwaukee.
Locating Google Earth KML/KMZ files using Google
19 February 2007 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | No comments
There's an easy way to search for all KML files available on the Web using Google Search. Simply enter the following string to search for a KML file for Brooklyn:
filetype:kml brooklyn or filetype:kmz milwaukee
Note the vast number of results. You can refine your search or add even more detail if you'd like better results. Similarly, if you'd like to locate an AutoCAD DWF format file, try this search string:
