More map links of interest to New Yorkers

If you're lucky enough to live in New York City, here are a few more hyperlinks you can use to learn more about where you live.

See previous post for more examples.

Find your Evacuation Zone

The OEM (Office of Emergency Management) has a hurricane evacuation zone finder with a handy map showing you if a given address is in a hurricane evacuation zone, and whether you should currently be evacuating?

Base URL:

http://gis.nyc.gov/oem/he/displayWebmap.htm

Parameters:
addressNumber (house number)
street (street name, urlencoded)
borough (name of borough, urlencoded)
searchType (should always equal AddressSearch)

Try it with the address for the New York Aquarium, located on the south shore of Brooklyn: 602 SURF AVENUE, BROOKLYN 11224

Here is the resulting URL. Want to guess what they should do if a hurricane hits NYC?

http://gis.nyc.gov/oem/he/displayWebmap.htm?addressNumber=602&street=Surf%20Avenue&borough=Brooklyn&searchType=AddressSearch

Census Information

The Department of City Planning's Census FactFinder has a lot of useful Census data about a given address. It also compares that information to the borough and the city as a whole. Data is broken down by factors such as race, age and education. The resulting tables are also excellent candidates for web queries through Excel.

Base URL:

http://gis.nyc.gov/dcp/pa/Map

Parameters:
hseNumber (house number, urlencoded)
address (street name, urlencoded)
borough (see below)
event (should always equal PROCESS_TRACT)

For borough, use the following conversion chart:

1 = Manhattan
2 = Bronx
3 = Brooklyn
4 = Queens
5 = Staten Island

Here's the URL for New York Aquarium:

http://gis.nyc.gov/dcp/pa/Map?hseNumber=602&address=Surf+Avenue&borough=3&event=PROCESS_TRACT

Building Property Profile

Given an address, the NYC Buildings Department returns property information about that address. For example, block and lot, census area, and various permits and restrictions.

Base URL:

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/PropertyProfileOverviewServlet

Parameters:
houseno (house number, urlencoded)
street (street name, urlencoded)
boro (same as above)

As above, the boro parameter should be specified as follows:

1 = Manhattan
2 = Bronx
3 = Brooklyn
4 = Queens
5 = Staten Island

Once again, here is the URL as it applies to the New York Aquarium:

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/PropertyProfileOverviewServlet?houseno=602&street=Surf%20Avenue&boro=3

Dept of Sanitation Collection Schedule

Yes, you can even look up the garbage collection days for a given address.

Base URL:

http://gis.nyc.gov/gisapp/sn/sanitation.jsp

Parameters:
sn (house number, urlencoded)
street (street name, urlencoded)
borough (same as above)

Here's the collection schedule for the Empire State Building:

http://gis.nyc.gov/gisapp/sn/sanitation.jsp?sn=350&street=5th+Avenue&borough=1

Refuse: Monday Wednesday Friday
Recycling: Friday

So, what can we do with these links?

Well, they're great if you are a real estate agent. Educate your (potential) clients on things like local garbage pickup and census information for the locations you are managing. These links can be used in the backend of a real estate workbook, or even a website to dynamically display information based on address.

We can go even further, geocoding the address and then returning even more information like weather, driving distance and satellite maps.

Can you think of any more uses? Does your city have buildable links like this? Let us know in the comments.