Vertical short
Forty corners
A vertical short of the New York City Marathon course.
Short
Forty corners
Forty corners
Aerial imagery: Google Earth, and the imagery providers credited on screen in the film.
The course’s corners, counted as they arrive. The distribution is the point, not the total: five corners in the first fifteen kilometres, only three of them between km 5 and km 15, nineteen in the last twelve, and thirty of the forty square.
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The open data this film is built from.
3 of 3layers verified usable. Every layer below may enter a render.
| Layer | Role | Resolution | Licence | Commercial use | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYC 3-D Building Model (CityGML, LoD1.5/LoD2 hybrid)City of New York, Office of Technology and Innovation - NYC Open Data · City | Buildings | LoD1.5 prismatic with roof-structure detail; roughly 100 iconic buildings modelled to LoD2 | NYC Open Data - Terms of Use (no named licence)Weaker than Berlin's position, and the difference is worth stating plainly.Berlin ships under a named, machine-readable licence (dl-de/zero-2-0). New York publishes no named licence at all: the dataset metadata says only 'Open Data policies and restrictions apply', nyc.gov's general Terms of Use reserve rights over site materials without addressing datasets, and the clearest grant anywhere in the chain is the Open Data FAQ - 'Open Data belongs to all New Yorkers. There are no restrictions on the use of Open Data.' That sentence is the basis for commercialUse here, and it is a policy statement rather than a licence grant. Second constraint, unrelated to licensing: the survey is 2014 and described as a one-time capture, so a decade of Long Island City and Hudson Yards towers is missing. | Cleared | |
| NYC orthoimagery, 2024 flightCity of New York / New York State GIS Program Office · City | Imagery | 6 in/px (about 15 cm), 4-band, true ortho | NYC Open Data - Terms of Use (no named licence)Same unnamed-licence position as the building model.Resolution is better than Berlin's DOP20: 15 cm against 20 cm, which raises rather than lowers the ceiling on low passes. Vintage still has to be picked by season before it is picked by resolution - the Berlin lesson was that leaf-on is the decision and sharpness is the detail. New York flies biennially, so 2024, 2022 and 2020 are all available to compare. | Cleared | |
| OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap contributors / OpenStreetMap Foundation · Global | Vectors | vector, street level | Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL)Attribution requiredShare-alike“(c) OpenStreetMap contributors”Explicitly commercial-friendly, which is why the shipped course line is OSM geometry rather than the organiser's GPX. Share-alike binds a derived database, not a rendered frame. Overpass returns HTTP 406 unless a User-Agent header is set. | Cleared |