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Metadata and documentation for data maintained by Geographic Info Systems at NYC OTI

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2019-01-07 · latest 2026-07-25

Mentions per year 4 mentions · busiest year 2026 (3)
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  1. …buildings with interesting shapes kept popping up. The gap between 1951 and 1996 can be seen in: https://github.com/CityOfNewYork/nyc-geo-metadata/blob/main/...
    comment by bflesch · 2026-07-25 · in The footprints of every building in NYC
  2. Direct link to the data: https://github.com/CityOfNewYork/nyc-geo-metadata/blob/main/... Article does some nutzo thing where it adds ?ref=beautifulpublicdata.com to outgoing links.
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    The footprints of every building in NYC
    story by jonathanmkeegan · 2026-07-20 · 12 comments
  4. …collection of raw lidar, contour, GIS data: ftp://ftp.gis.ny.gov NYC Open Data (GIS related): https://github.com/CityOfNewYork/nyc-geo-metadata An example direct download link from the NYC data website:…
    comment by sbr464 · 2019-01-07 · in Mapping and visualization