Mapping New York's Rats

High-tech approach to an age-old problem. New York City has just launched an interactive rat map online.

Update: A reader has pointed me to this book by Robert Sullivan, which has a cover of a map of Manhattan in the shape of a rat.

Further update: My story about GIS-mapping of NYC's rats and going on rat patrol in the Bronx is up on Time.com.

And now the rat map video is up as well. You can read some behind-the-scenes stuff here.