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.
Open Government NYC
24 March 2009 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | No comments
While I'm disappointed I couldn't attend the first Open Government NYC meeting last night, I was glad to read the New York Observer coverage:
The goal of the Open Government NYC Meetup, according to head organizer Matt Cooperrider, was to bring together everyone working on Government 2.0 initiatives in the city and suss out who is working on what—and maybe pool their efforts. After sipping Brooklyn Brewery beers and munching on cheese and cookies, about 40 of the attendees tried to figure out how they could help—from creating Twitter feeds for each New York City subway line and setting up platforms for crowd-sourced reports to explaining to politicians exactly why open data is so important.
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Louis Klepner, who works on CivicID.org and the NYC Community Fiber Project, which aims to bring stronger broadband connectivity to the city, said the tech savvy folks in the room should break out of their inner circles and become more visible to local government. He said he attended a city council meeting about open government and broadband access, and he was one of only five people there. "One thing that we have en masse is our mass," he said. "We need to use it."
Read the entire New York Observer article.
