INTERACTIVE MAPS
Interactive maps were submitted from the private collection of members of the GISMO community, or were printed from digital files. These maps represent a wide range of themes including the diverse Queens neighborhood and demographics, urban planning, environmental studies, election analysis and more. A set of Halloween themed maps with parade routes and a scary “Crime of the Century” story will thrill ghouls of all ages.
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Adventures in Data Collection, Mapping & Analysis
By Paula Kay Lazrus
Interactive map
Website: https://sju.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=e93c6f15a2b24969bf5ab32fa20d2955
Description: A tree inventory on the St. John’s University Queens campus.
New York in the 1940s
By Steven Romalewski, CUNY Graduate Center
Interactive map
Website: http://www.1940snewyork.com/
Description: Interactive map project highlighting New York in the 1940s.
Jackson Heights DiverCity Map
By Carlos Martinez, Hibridos Collective
Interactive Map
Website: http://hibridos.co/divercitymap/
NYC Street Trees by Species
By Jill Hubley
Interactive map
Website: http://jillhubley.com/project/nyctrees/
Description: New York City’s urban forest provides numerous environmental and social benefits, and street trees compose roughly one quarter of that canopy. This map shows the distribution and biodiversity of the city’s street trees based on the NYC Parks’ 2005 tree census.
New York City Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Jill Hubley
Interactive map
Website: http://jillhubley.com/project/nycemissions
Description: I color coded buildings in NYC by the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions they produce. This greenhouse gas emission number includes “carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide generated from on-site energy consumption within a property.
Open Accessible Space Information System (OASIS)
By Steve Romalewski
Interactive map
Website: http://www.oasisnyc.net/
Description: The Open Accessible Space Information System (OASIS) website provides the richest source of community maps for New York City — free and all in one place. It helps nonprofits, community groups, educators, students, public agencies, and local businesses develop a better understanding of their environment with interactive maps of open spaces, property information, transportation networks, and more.
The OASIS website is guided by a collaborative partnership of private and public sector representatives that seek to sustain an accessible information system that helps enhance the stewardship of open space so these areas are linked, diverse and sustainable for the benefit of all people, organisms, and ecosystems in and around New York City.
Social Explorer
By Andrew Beveridge, Queens College
Interactive Map
Website: http://www.socialexplorer.com/
Description: SocialExplorer.com is an award winning demographic data visualization and research website designed to engage users through dynamic maps and customizable reports. From research libraries to classrooms to government agencies to corporations to the front page of the New York Times, SocialExplorer.com helps the public engage with society and science.
City Bike Maps
By New York City Department of Transit
Interactive map
Website: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikemaps.shtml
Description: The New York City Bike Map is an annual free publication of DOT. Over 365,000 maps will be available from NYC bicycle shops, NYC Parks Recreation Centers, libraries and schools in all five boroughs. You can also order your free copy by calling 311.
Neighborhood Maps
By NYC Department of City Planning
Interactive map
Website: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/city-neighborhoods.page
Description: Geographically, New York is a city with 5 boroughs, 59 community districts and hundreds of neighborhoods. In 2014, the Department of City Planning issued a revised wall map displaying the neighborhood names and community district boundaries along with informative statistics on the geographic, demographic and economic profile of New York City.
Property Praxis: The Geography of Housing Speculation in Detroit
By Alex Hill, Property Praxis
Interactive map
Website: http://propertypraxis.org
Description: Property Praxis is a collective exercise illustrating the impact of speculation on cities. This map focuses on Detroit, but will be expanding to other cities next year.
Speculators control nearly 20 percent of all land parcels in Detroit. Though their practices vary, speculation often changes the role and use of property in neighborhoods and communities. At its most extreme, speculation generates vacancy and abandonment. It is often a practice with minimal investment that hastening the deterioration of houses, commercial, and industrial buildings.
2016 Presidential Primary Results: Who Won NYC
Steven Romalewski, CUNY Graduate Center
Interactive map
Website: http://www.nycelectionatlas.com/maps.html#!PresprimaryNYCResults
Description: Local vote patterns from the 2016 Presidential primary for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Who’s Funding NYC Municipal Elections: 2017
Steven Romalewski, CUNY Graduate Center
Interactive map
Website: http://maps.nyccfb.info/
Description: Interactive map highlighting the spatial patterns of campaign fundraising for the upcoming 2017 municipal elections.
Estimated Total Annual Building Energy Consumption at the Block and Lot Level for NYC
By Shaky Sherpa, Sustainable Engineering Lab (formerly Modi Research Group)
Interactive Map
Website: http://qsel.columbia.edu/nycenergy/
Description: The map represents an estimate of the total annual building energy consumption at the block level and at the tax lot level for New York City, and is expressed in kilowatt hours (kWh) per square meter of land area. A mathematical model based on statistics, not individual building data, was used to estimate the annual energy consumption values for buildings throughout the five boroughs. To see the percentage break down of the estimated end-uses, hover over or click on a block or tax lot. The tax lot level data shows how much energy an average building of that size and type would use.
Data Source: B. Howard, L. Parshall, J. Thompson, S. Hammer, J. Dickinson, and V. Modi, “Spatial distribution of urban building energy consumption by end use.“ Energy and Buildings .Volume 45. January 2011.
Open Sewer Atlas NYC
By Korin Tangtrakul
Interactive map
Website: http://openseweratlas.tumblr.com/
Description: Topography, population, land use, density, and many other factors play a role in the day to day function of the sewer system. The goal of Open Sewer Atlas NYC is to visualize the relationships between these factors and make available information that may assist in the improvement of waste water/stormwater management by organizations with limited access to technical information and data. New York City sewage infrastructure currently allows 27 billion gallons every year of combined sewage and stormwater to pollute the city’s surrounding waterbodies. We hope that Open Sewer Atlas NYC will help to identify target areas for intervention to reduce the amount of polluted water entering the city’s waterways.
Smelly Maps
Interactive Map
Website: http://goodcitylife.org/smellymaps
Description: Think about your nose. Now think about big data. You probably didn’t realize it, but your nose is a big data machine. Humans are able to potentially discriminate more than thousands different odors.
On one hand, we have our big data nose; on the other hand, we have city officials and urban planners who deal only with the management of less than ten bad odors out of a trillion. Why this negative and oversimplified perspective?
Smell is simply hard to measure.
Smelly Maps have recently proposed a new way of capturing the entire urban smellscape from social media data (i.e., tags on Flickr pictures or tweets).
Cities are victims of a discipline’s negative perspective, only bad odors have been considered. The Smelly Maps project aims at disrupting this negative view and, as a consequence, being able to celebrate the complex smells of our cities.
Chatty Maps
By Rossano Schifanella, University of Turin, IT
Interactive Map
Website: http://goodcitylife.org/chattymaps
Description: Urban sound has a huge influence over how we perceive places. Yet, city planning is concerned mainly with noise, simply because annoying sounds come to the attention of city officials in the form of complaints, while general urban sounds cannot be easily captured at city scale. To capture both unpleasant and pleasant sounds, we propose a new methodology that relies on tagging information of georeferenced pictures.
We propose the first urban sound dictionary and compare it to the one produced by collating insights from the literature: ours is experimentally more valid (if correlated with official noise pollution levels) and offers wider geographic coverage.
From picture tags, we then study the relationship between soundscapes and emotions. We learn that streets with music sounds are associated with strong emotions of joy or sadness, while those with human sounds are associated with joy or surprise.
Finally, we study the relationship between soundscapes and people’s perceptions and, in so doing, we are able to map which areas are chaotic, monotonous, calm, and exciting. Those insights promise to inform the creation of restorative experiences in our increasingly urbanized world.
The 1934 Ice House Heist
By Noreen Whysel
Interactive Map
Website: http://arcg.is/2ddaGbT
Description: The 1934 Rubel Ice Corporation heist was at the time called the “crime of the century.” According to the New York Times, seven to ten men, reputably part of Jack “Legs” Diamond’s gang, held up an armored car in front of the Rubel Ice Corporation in Brooklyn and made off with $427,950. A member of the thieving party accidentally fired a shotgun at his partner, Bernard “Bennie the Bum” McMahon’s knee, in a getaway speedboat. With the engine damaged, they rowed to a Riverside Drive rooming house run by a female acquaintance that they knew would assist them. A surgeon was called, but the next morning, the victim died of a botched amputation. The criminals disposed the body in a trunk abandoned in an alley near the home of Brigadier General Louis W. Stotesbury at 154 West 74th Street. Police found it a few days later. It took two years before authorities had enough evidence to indict the thieves. The cash was never recovered.
Jack’s Top Picks for Nearby Eats
By Noreen Whysel and Jack Eichenbaum
Interactive map
Website: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1en-jfCGaOYeDe3MN3NiToqCN92M&usp=sharing
Description: Jack Eichenbaum’s suggested list of restaurants located near the Queens Museum
The Spread of the Gospel Map
By Isaac and Heidi Botkin
Video animation
Website: https://vimeo.com/113801439
The Spread of the Gospel Map is a visual depiction of the spread of Christianity throughout the world, Charting the geographic progress of the Gospel over the last 2,000 years, this map shows the missionary journeys of the apostles, the outposts of the early church, the hotbeds of persecution, the staging grounds of the Church’s major theological battles.
1989 Holy Land Thematic Map
By National Geographic
Website: http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/print-collection/holy-land-map-1989.html
Description: Half of a two-page layout on the Holy Land, this map demonstrates the beautiful cartography that National Geographic is known for combined with copious historical, religious, and geographical facts about this land of faith and conflict. Printed in December 1989, this work is noteworthy on its own or accompanied by the other half of the feature.
NYC Subway Map of Calories
By Treated.com
https://www.treated.com/dr-wayne-osborne/new-york-subway-map-of-calories
Description: When it comes to exercise, perhaps one of the biggest challenges of living and working in a busy city like New York is finding the time to do it. Treated.com created the NYC Subway Map of Calories to demonstrate how getting off the subway a stop or two earlier than usual can provide an economic and convenient way to burn off a few extra calories.
Subway Stops and Median Rents: NYC 2015-16
By Renthop
Interactive map
Website: https://www.renthop.com/study/new-york-city-ny/new-york-subway-rents.html
Description: Close your eyes and think of your least favorite things about New York City. If the subway and your monthly rent come to mind, then you’re in for a treat. The RentHop data science team has put together a map of median rents for one-bedroom apartments across all the subway lines. They cross-referenced their apartment listings to train entrance locations, taking the median of apartments within 500 meters or about two avenues from each stop.