Comments on: Wayfinding-Related Entries in the NYC BigApps Competition http://www.fd2s.com/2010/01/wayfinding-related-entries-in-the-nyc-bigapps-competition/ fd2s provides wayfinding consulting and environmental graphic design services to clients around the world. Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:08:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Steven Romalewski http://www.fd2s.com/2010/01/wayfinding-related-entries-in-the-nyc-bigapps-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1768 Steven Romalewski Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:12:14 +0000 http://www.fd2s.com/?p=1137#comment-1768 Make sure to check out the OASISnyc mapping site as well (our team at the CUNY Graduate Center developed it). Its target audience is open space planners and advocates, but it's used by everyone from real estate professionals to architects to city agency staff to urban planning students to anyone who's curious about how their property and neighborhood fit in to the larger urban fabric. See http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/oasis/map.aspx It includes dozens of mapped layers of "civic infrastructure", and includes visualization tools such as historical aerial photos (fade between aerial views from 1996 and 2006), dynamic transparencies for any layer, a wealth of links and related information about each spot on the map, Bing's bird's eye views embedded in the map, and even photorealistic imagery for Manhattan from 1609 (in partnership with the Mannahatta Project). Make sure to check out the OASISnyc mapping site as well (our team at the CUNY Graduate Center developed it). Its target audience is open space planners and advocates, but it’s used by everyone from real estate professionals to architects to city agency staff to urban planning students to anyone who’s curious about how their property and neighborhood fit in to the larger urban fabric. See http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/oasis/map.aspx

It includes dozens of mapped layers of “civic infrastructure”, and includes visualization tools such as historical aerial photos (fade between aerial views from 1996 and 2006), dynamic transparencies for any layer, a wealth of links and related information about each spot on the map, Bing’s bird’s eye views embedded in the map, and even photorealistic imagery for Manhattan from 1609 (in partnership with the Mannahatta Project).

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