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A detailed map of block-by-block energy use has been created by the Columbia University Engineering School with data from the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. The interactive map demonstrates the energy used to heat and cool buildings, which accounts for two-thirds of the energy used in the city. The research built a statistical [...]
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New York will soon get an online solar mapping site similar to those developed for San Francisco and other cities. The $640,000 mapping and online interface project is being coordinated by the City University of New York, with help from the Center for Spatial Information at Hunter College, and others. Sanborn Map Company gathered LiDAR [...]
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New York City just completed a LIDAR mapping project that was spurred largely by preparation for climate changes, including more rain and increased coastal flooding due to sea level rise. The project was part of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC project for a “greener, greater New York.” The climate change portion of the initiative include: Expansion of [...]
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The New York Times has a “Scents of the City” smell map online. It’s an interesting combination of day and night smells for different neighborhoods, specifically highlighting the smells of Summer. Smell mapping isn’t anything new, in fact there’s a whole Japanese website devoted specifically to capturing and describing smells. Smell is an important memory [...]
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Today’s New York Times contains an editorial by Verlyn Klinkenborg titled, “Map Upon Map: New Dimension in What Maps Can Do.” The editorial delves into the functionality of NYCityMap, and explores the benefits and meaning of digital maps. “It’s easy to assume that the real revolution in mapping is the global positioning satellite and Google [...]
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A decade-long project to digitize and database New York City’s sewer and water main maps has now come to a close. The digital maps are complete with detailed attribute data, including pipe size, the date built and repaired, and their composition. The data is now accessible to many more people than the previous archaic paper-based [...]
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