Government Information Resources for NYC Community Health Assessment   Tags: community health, gis, government information, public health  

Geographic Information System for New York City. Find the nearest schools, libraries, public safety facilities, visualize municipal boundaries, and link to useful reports and statistics. NYCMap provides a wider variety of information on municipal boundaries -such as police precincts, to cite one example- and on municipal service centers than can be found on another, powerful, NYC GIS, OASIS (also linked on this page).

OASIS is a GIS for NYC produced by a partnership of private and public entities. OASIS is valuable for providing a means of visualizing data on population characteristics, zoning information, and environmental characteristics that are not available on NYCMap.

TIGER is the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system from the U.S. Census Bureau. It provides GIS for visualizing U.S. census tracts, blocks, regions, and divisions; school districts; and legislative areas. Demographic data is currently not available in beta.