We've just released the latest version of the NYC Geodatabase, a resource designed for mapping and analyzing NYC city-level features and data in GIS. We're continuing to offer two formats that have identical content - a Spatialite version for QGIS and Spatialite users, and an MS Access personal geodatabase for ArcGIS users (while each format works best with those specific platforms, they have become more interchangeable; ArcGIS Desktop began supporting Spatialite with version 10.2, and from QGIS 2.4 onward you can access personal geodatabases via an ODBC connection).
Here are the latest updates in the new version (Aug 2015):
- All of the NYC facility point features - colleges, hospitals, libraries, and schools - have been updated. The new features are derived from the 2015 version of city planning's programs and facilities database; the old features were from 2013.
- The subway stations layer has been recently rebuilt from the MTA's transit data feed, and the subway complexes layer has been updated with the latest ridership data for 2014.
- The previous PATH train stations layer for NYC was dropped in favor of a new source from NJ Transit. We've also added ridership data for these stations from the NY & NJ Port Authority from 2012 to 2014.
- We've swapped out the 2012 ZIP Code Business Patterns with new data for 2013. Data on employment, establishments, and wages is aggregated to the ZCTA level.
All metadata and documentation is up to date. If you still need data from the previous version (Jan 2015) it's been moved to the NYC Geodatabase Archive section.