Fall 2017

QGIS, Python

Every New York City Rooftop from which You Can See the Statue of Liberty, and Vice Versa

This map applies public data to the act of seeing. It uses data of elevation and footprints of buildings in New York City to calculate which rooftops have sightlines to the Statue of Liberty. In ideal conditions, sightlines are reciprocal. For the purposes of this experiment, we say that the rooftops that have views of the statue also compose the view from the statue.

This project won the NACIS prize for student cartographic research.