On my team at the NYC Department of City Planning, we have been working with vector tiles and mapboxGL to create fast and beautiful web maps. When it comes to getting vector data into the client for display in mapboxGL, you basically have two options: Consume vector tiles from a …
Hi Internet, it’s been a while. I’ve been hard at work building web mapping tools for NYC’s City Planners, and have recently started using Mapbox GL pretty heavily in our stack. Why? It’s fast, sleek, powerful, and beautiful (and Open Source!). But it’s not just a simple improvement on the Leaflet.js …
I’ve been working with PostGIS quite a lot lately, and found myself faced with the problem of being able to easily visualize …
Property Tax constitutes the single biggest source of revenue for the New York City Government, accounting for approximately $22.5 Billion dollars in …
Here’s some granular data on the NYC operating budget. First, take a look at this supporting schedules publication for the Fiscal Year …
Last week, I shipped a just about finished version of Urban Scratchoff, a simple map app that lets you explore two different …
A year ago, some Civic Hackers in NYC were interested in making a map of New York City Daycare facilities to help parents …
[Cover photo by Flickr user wallyg] After a summer of searching for a condominium unit to buy in NYC, I’ve come across …
Be careful what you release into the wilds of the internet! A few days ago, mostly out of curiosity, I created the …
I love streeteasy.com. The site has everything for the NYC apartment-seeker: High quality listings, uber-granular searching, discussion forums, and lots of great …