Month: October 2008

The NYC Department of City Planning is pleased to announce the release
of LION and Districts 08B. The following files are available for free
download from our website.

1. The DCP LION single line street file (08B)- available in both
MapInfo Table and ESRI File GeoDatabase formats.
data >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/dwnlion.shtml
metatdata >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/meta_lion.shtml

2. The Political and Administrative Districts (08B)- available only in
ESRI shapefile format.
data >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/dwndistricts.shtml
metadata >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/districtsmetadata.shtml

3. NYC Projection Areas (08B) – available only in both ESRI shapefile.
data >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/dwn_pa.shtml
metadata >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/meta_pa.shtml

For all other NYC Department of City Planning GIS products, please
visit the BYTES of the BIG APPLE website at:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml

Uttam Bera
GIS Specialist, ITD
Department of City Planning
22 Reade Street, 5N
New York, NY 10007

Green Map System will be demonstrating the OpenGreenMap.org participatory website-in-progress and sharing the potential of this new new tool for inclusive participation in sustainable community development. Presenters include Thomas Turnbull, lead developer (using Drupal, Google Map and more), Carlos Martinez, Latin America Coordinator (managing interface translations and social network outreach) and Wendy Brawer, founding director. Now involving 500 diverse communities in 54 countries, the locally-led global Green Map movement continues to expand and impact our city and our world.

For more on the origins of Green Map & an interview with Wendy see: http://www.grist.org/advice/books/2006/04/18/sprinkle/

NYC Office of Emergency Management
Geographic Information System (GIS) Unit

Position: GIS Intern
The GIS unit seeks a self-motivated intern to carry out activities
relating to application and web map programming, map production, and
database design. Familiarity with programming language such as C# or
Java is required. Also knowledge of GIS software packages such as
ArcMap is preferred.

Responsibilities
General: