#doitt

UPDATE: A third use has been identified. 

Last April, DoITT released a three-dimensional (3-D) Building Massing Model of New York City, available for download on DoITT’s website and the Open Data Portal. The 3-D model was captured from the 2014 aerial survey. Aerial surveys are conducted every two years to produce digital orthophotography, or aerial photography that can be accurately scaled and used for maps. The data contains every NYC building present when that survey was taken.

Providing this data to the public allows users to creatively visualize New York City’s iconic skyline, conduct analyses and build applications. We are familiar with three separate uses of this data:

NYC Building Shadow Mapping: To commemorate the Winter Solstice in December, New York Times contributors analyzed the building shadows of the entire City. Interactive maps at different times of the year – Winter, Spring/Fall, and Summer – allow readers to explore the amount of time each NYC building spends in shadow.

Cesium Map: Cesium is an open-source library for 3D globes and maps. One user created an interactive map of New York City, visualizing New York City’s over 1 million buildings as 3D models. Map users may explore this map by address or landmark, and buildings may be presented as colors visually representing their heights.

Esri Map: CoolMaps is a collection of creative maps that use the Esri Mapping Platform. This Vision Zero map uses the 3D model of New York City to represent live traffic, collisions, and traffic injuries and deaths, based on NYC Department of Transportation’s datasets on the Open Data Portal.

I feel like summer has made me forget how to hold a pen and all i’ve been doing since uni is typing. 

1 dead and 1 injured in Brooklyn brownstone fire; As IBEW Local 3 Members Remain On Strike, NYC Audits Charter Communications and more

1 dead and 1 injured in Brooklyn brownstone fire –An 81-year-old woman died and another person was seriously injured in a fire at a four-story brownstone in Brooklyn early Thursday, fire officials said. Residents of the building on Pacific Street in Crown Heights were forced to scramble out of windows for safety as the blaze ripped through the structure. “I woke to the woman crying. She was…