OasisNYC:About
From OasisNYC
The New York City Open Accessible Space Information System Cooperative (OASIS) is the richest source of community maps for New York City -- free and all in one place online.
OASIS is guided by a partnership of almost 60 nonprofits, community groups, educators, public agencies, businesses, and individuals who use online mapping technology to sustain the city’s open spaces and visualize the nexus between community greening and broader urban planning issues.
How: A community-based undertaking, local organizations designed and tested the first citywide, web-based, open space mapping resource for NYC. OASIS facilitates and focuses the delivery of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) resources to provide timely and accurate information about the green infrastructure of NYC.
What OASIS Does: OASIS enables NYC community residents to:
- create maps of open space by zip code, borough, tax block and lot, and/or neighborhood;
- identify key open space resources within or near a user- defined area;
- locate these resources by name, type, and other attributes in addition to geographic-based searches;
- identify other natural resources and landmarks near or adjacent to open spaces in the city;
- undertake “what if” scenarios, such as, what would my neighborhood look like if these vacant lots remained community gardens, or how would new bike lanes or bus routes improve my access to a park in the Bronx?; and
- use other mapping and data analysis tools.
Special thanks to the Research Computing team at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) for making this wiki possible.
