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LA 3010 GIS data sources

LA 3010 GIS data sources

by Keith Jenkins, kgj2@cornell.edu
GIS Librarian at Mann Library, Cornell University
Fall 2022

New York City open data

https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/

Census demographics (current data)

https://censusreporter.org/

OpenStreetMap

Explore the available data on the main OSM map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/40.6291/-74.0671
Download shapefiles from: https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us.html

Urban heat

Website: https://council.nyc.gov/data/heat/
To download the data from GitHub (click the green "Code" button > Download ZIP)

Historical photos (and a couple maps)

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

Aerial photos, 1924 and 1951

https://maps.nyc.gov/then&now/

Annual Report of the Department of Parks, Borough of Richmond, 1924-1933

http://nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4286annual_report_staten_is_dept_parks_1924.pdf

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