an interesting use of GIS . . . The Rap Map

pitu

The New Yorker wrote:
CRIMINAL JUSTICE DEPT.
RAP MAP
Issue of 2007-01-08
Posted 2007-01-01

From water pipes to porn shops, cartographers have charted almost every aspect of local urban life, giving rise to a sort of cottage industry: the New York City specialty map. The latest—and one you are not likely to see unless you run in criminal-justice circles—is a rendering of the city that breaks down, block by block, the home addresses of all New Yorkers incarcerated in a given year. This map won’t get you from Century 21 to the Met. But it does reveal that more prison-bound Bronx residents lived in walkups than in any other type of building, that Staten Island is the most law-abiding borough, and that Brooklyn—nicknamed “the borough of churches”—ran up the state’s highest bill in prison costs.

Eric Cadora and Charles Swartz, co-founders of the Brooklyn-based Justice Mapping Center, collaborated on the project with an architect named Laura Kurgan, at Columbia’s Spatial Information Design Lab. “What started out as a scholarly inquiry has turned into a national initiative,” said Cadora, whose team has mapped twelve cities so far. Their New York is a digital crazy quilt of “bright-against-black”: the areas least touched by incarceration in 2003, the year they chose to study (Riverdale, Bay Ridge, the West Village), appear black and gray; those more so (Coney Island, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Hell’s Kitchen) neon orange.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/070108ta_talk_macintyre

street shooter

How do I get to the map?

doctorj

street shooter wrote: How do I get to the map?

Well you could start with breaking a few windows, and work your way up to bank robbery...

lostingreenwoodhts

Gaffaw!

doctorj

Like Timothy J. Bowers, for example.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/business/mutfund/07essay.html?_r=1&ref=mutfund&oref=slogin