data visualization
A new OASIS for New York
Steven Romalewski, one of the forces behind the development of the Open Accessible Space Information System, takes us on a tour of the online mapping resource's version 2.0.
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Let’s Talk About Maps 3
Kris Goodfellow is the Vice President for Product Management at cyberhomes.com an online real estate site, and she has been specialist in map-making for the last decade. Prior to joining Cyberhomes, Kris was the creative director for the ArcWeb Services team at ESRI, the world's largest maker of geographic information software. While…
The Omnibus Roundup – data vis., Concourse, solar trash compactors, archiCULTURE
First up, some news and commentary: the Gowanus rezoning is on hold; the shovel-ready tunnel link that will double the number of Penn Station's Jersey commuters proves once again that much stimulus thinking is short-sighted; and Omnibus fan and fellow cinephile Leni Schwendinger discusses, with a leading…
Imagining Recovery
Architecture students Wayne Congar and Troy Therrien share the back story of the design competition they organized to invite new visions of post-financial crisis America.
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Touba in New York:
116th & Lenox
Anna María Bogadóttir makes visible points of connection between 116th Street, the international diaspora of the Mouride Brotherhood and the holy city of Touba, Senegal.
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Let’s Talk About Maps 2
Visual journalist Sarah Slobin talks to longtime Time Magazine cartographer Joe Lertola and looks at some examples from his body of work.
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Let’s talk about maps

The map provides one of the principal governing metaphors for how we organize and navigate information. According to New York Times technology reporter John Markoff,

With the dominance of the cellphone, a new metaphor is emerging for how we organize, find and use information. New in one sense, that is

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Who takes care of New York?
STEW-MAP plots the experience of more than 600 caretaker groups ranging in size and scope from informal block associations to national membership organizations.
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