WARNING 8/2/10 – 7 AM: The link to the map (below) is broken. I’ve written to the folks at GeoCommons and will get this fixed asap. Thanks for your patience.
In response to feedback you’ve provided, gentle readers, along with feedback I’ve received from people as I’ve sat showing them my interactive GeoCommons maps, I’ve made some adjustments.
Check out a new map here.
When the map opens, you’ll see dark blue squares that represent all the parcels with buildings on them in 1970. The larger the square, the larger the size of the parcel the building sits on.
To see all the parcels with buildings on them in 2008, click the eye icon on the “All Parcels, 2007″ Layer. You’ll see light blue squares that represent parcels new since 1970.
To see the animation, click the clock icon as described before. On the timeline, be sure to move the slider to “faster,” and press the play button.
Also as before, you can turn on or off the layers that show ownership of large tracts of land by New York State/The Nature Conservancy, working timber companies, and by timber investment management organizations (TIMOs). The default mode for these is now “off,” to cut down on visual confusion. But you can easily turn them on my clicking on their eye icons.
Also easier to use should be the interactivity with individual properties. Click on any square, and you should immediately see the acreage of the parcel, the owner’s name and address, and assessment information.
Please try it and let me know what you think. Are the colors, symbology, and layers more or less easy to understand? What else do you wish you could do?
Finally, some of you commented that there wasn’t enough context here for a person not familiar with the region to understand what’s going on, or what the significance is of what you’re seeing. In my next post, I will post some of the significant conclusions I’ve drawn from this information. In the meantime, know that my primary goal for this project is to create a tool for use by people who do live and work in this region, so a certain amount of context is assumed for the average user.
Thanks so much for your feedback!
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