City Map

In New York City the City Map is a legal construct that represents the official map of the city. Like many New York City legal constructs the City Map is a fascinating and complicated topic.

This blog post covers the topic nicely:

https://nycitymap.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/what-is-the-city-map-of-new-york-city/

And here it is on the Wayback Machine in case that blog, which has been abandoned by the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation, disappears from the internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221010115946/https://nycitymap.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/what-is-the-city-map-of-new-york-city/

A self-described "elite" group at the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation also created something that they occasionally called the New York City Map or NYCMap. A local publication, the "The New Yorker," wrote about this.

https://github.com/mattyschell/nyc-spatial-rolodex/blob/main/nyc-spatial-rolodex-citymap.pdf

Eventually the NYCMap concept evolved into a standard "kitchen sink" Geographic Information System web application NYCityMap that was mostly abandoned by around 2020.

https://github.com/mattyschell/nyc-spatial-rolodex/blob/main/nyc-spatial-rolodex-nycitymap.png

Vendor ESRI and The NYC Office of Technology and Innovation rebuilt NYCityMap as NYCityMap 2.0. Here is 2023 a presentation from the project manager at ESRI:

https://github.com/timcala37/citymap-feedback/blob/main/Many%20Lives%20of%20CityMap%20032124.pptx

And here is a link to NYCityMap 2.0:

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/d826b115c87841d491c2b41fcb175305