GISMO Listserv Guidelines The following topics are covered in this message: 1. What is Virtual GISMO? 2. What is the GISMONYC listserv? 3. How do I...
gismonyc@yahoogroups....
Feb 1, 2009 9:48 am
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Hi All: I need a file that has the street widths for all the streets in Manhattan. Does anyone know if a file like this exists. Thanks so much, Sarah Williams ...
I do not think so...been trying to get this done for 20 years. The data is on the BP's maps which are still not digitized....Wendy Dorf ... From: sw2279...
WRDGIS@...
Feb 2, 2009 4:06 pm
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It sounds like something called NYCMap has it, judging by the illustrations in this link: ...
Based on my experience, which is possibly outdated, no such file exists. The street widths, in lower Manhattan in particular, are often non-standard. The ...
gochfeldlaw@...
Feb 2, 2009 4:06 pm
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I know that a few years ago the NYC Department of Sanitation had a project that created a street width map for street sweeping purposes. Try checking with...
The latest Planimetric data (based on the 2006 Orthophotos) released by DoITT last fall include street width for the entire city. You can obtain this data from...
There is a publicly available vector shapefile at NYC DOITT's website called "transportation line". It is not good for aggregate analysis because curb to curb...
Mark, I just looked on the DoITT GIS Download website and the "latest release" is from 2004. Is DoITT providing public access to the 2006 version? Steve ...
________________________________ From: Gochfeld, Robert Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:49 AM To: gismonyc@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [gismonyc] Street...
HI All, I'm a graduate student currently researching green roofs in New York City. As of now, I have not found any kind of database on the topic and therefore...
Naomi, The Dept of Finance MAY have records of green roofs for SOME properties (tax lots) on its property tax data base. If there, they are likely to have...
jaconet@...
Feb 4, 2009 12:27 pm
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Now can someone at GISMO explain why my response came from "unknown sender" instead of my e-mail address? Bob Gochfeld **************Great Deals on Dell...
gochfeldlaw@...
Feb 4, 2009 12:27 pm
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George: Thanks for your help -- so you have a contact for this. My contact said he didn't know anything about it. THANKS!!--Sarah ... -- Sarah Williams tel....
Naomi The New York City Department of Buildings has a database (BIS) of every building in the city and tracks every permit issued; however, it is indexed by ...
gochfeldlaw@...
Feb 4, 2009 2:24 pm
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Naomi, There is a green roof inventory online at http://www.greenroofs.com/projects with over 40 entries for NYC. Locally, I would contact Earth Pledge to see...
Thank you Danielle, and others, for raising awareness of these very important applications of GIS. We should really meet as a GIS subgroup for applied...
You might want to check out CUNY's institute for sustainable cities... http://www.cunysustainablecities.org/ Hope everyone is doing well, Chris Herrmann...
Hello All, I need some expert advice. I am looking for a royalty-free base map of simple blocks for Manhattan. I am designing a symbology that is just too...
Instead of importing iconography into ESRI, perhaps try exporting your basemap from ESRI to Illustrator. I do this all the time. I've had very good success...
John Emerson
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Feb 7, 2009 2:42 am
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Many of you have probably heard this already. Issues like this were debated early in GISMO and NYS GIS circles. Kepp tuned for another decade. Jack...
jaconet@...
Feb 9, 2009 1:18 pm
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John, Thanks for your reply. I have spent a fair amount of time experimenting with settings to export the DOITT base maps, but no luck. Many of the lines...
I usually use the "Simplify Path" tool in Illustrator: http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/13.0/WSCB13EA3D-2DAE-4a05-BB60-0FCA9907DDA9.html Though you...
John Emerson
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Feb 9, 2009 2:18 pm
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Thanks Jack...I have always had an interest in this issue. Have a good one....Wendy ... From: jaconet@... To: gismonyc@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, 8 Feb...
WRDGIS@...
Feb 9, 2009 3:28 pm
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I love this: ...the County tried several arguments to justify its policy of selling GIS basemap data for over $150 ,000 (!!!) and this: I. Federal homeland...
John, Thanks. The Simplify tool does help a lot, but I have a bit of a learning curve on the Generalization tools before I can be sure if that will help. ...