Geosupport Desktop Edition™

A note about new political redistricting geographies:

New Congressional District lines for 2025 were signed into law on February 28, 2024. These new Congressional District values were prematurely released into our 24A1, 24B, and 24C Geosupport software and political boundary data products. The 24C2 release reflects a rollback of Congressional District values to the 2024 values. New Congressional District values will be released into our data products at around January 1, 2025 as part of a 24D mid-cycle release and communications informing users of the change will follow the release. Version 24C2 also reflects citywide curbside organics collection rollout implemented by DSNY on October 7th. If there are questions, concerns, or feedback please reach out to gss_feedback@planning.nyc.gov.

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Geosupport Desktop Edition^TM is a highly customized geocoding package that allows users to process geographic information for New York City.

Once you download and extract the contents of the zipped file, you can start the installation process by double-clicking on setup.exe. When complete, you can launch the program and view the readme file. Users are urged to view the readme.txt file as it contains information not found elsewhere in the user documentation.

A complete set of documentation manuals can be found in:

C:\program files\geosupport desktop edition\doc

Please note: If you chose to install to a location other than ‘c:\program files’, then substitute this location in front of ‘\geosupport desktop edition\doc’.

Which Version of Geosupport Desktop Edition Should I Install?
I f you are planning to use NYCgbat, Geosupport Desktop Edition’s (GDE) batch geocoding application, you should download the version that is consistent with your ODBC drivers.  For most users the ODBC drivers will be installed with Microsoft Office.  If you have the 32-bit version of Office installed, then you should download and install the 32-bit version of GDE, even if your PC is 64-bit.  If you have the 64-bit version of Office installed, then you should download and install the 64-bit version of GDE. 

What are the UPAD and TPAD files?
UPAD (Updated Property Address Directory) is an ancillary file that contains property level address, tax parcel, and building identification number updates made to the Geosupport Desktop Edition’s™ PAD™ (Property Address Directory) file since its last quarterly release.

Note to Users:
The PAD™ file contains data relating to all the property parcels (i.e. tax block and lots) in the City of New York. Included in the PAD™ file are property level addresses, Building Identification Numbers (BINs), Business Improvements Districts, etc.

TPAD (Transitional Property Address Directory) provides users with up-todate property related information received from the Department of Buildings, such as job filings for new fbuildings (NB) as well as status updates of new construction and/or demolition. The UPAD and TPAD files are released biweekly. To get the latest version of
the files, download the appropriate installation package from the list below.

Note to Users:
You must have the most recent quarterly release of the Geosupport Desktop Edition™ installed before installing biweekly UPAD and TPAD files.

Release 24C2	Download	Size
Windows version of Geosupport Desktop - Standard 32-bit		Zipped 251 Mb
Windows version of Geosupport Desktop - Standard 64-bit		Zipped 240 Mb
Linux version of Geosupport Desktop		Zipped 196 Mb
UPAD / TPAD Release 24C5	Download	Size
Windows version of UPAD / TPAD - Standard 32-bit		Zipped 5.3 Mb
Windows version of UPAD / TPAD - Standard 64-bit		Zipped 5.3 Mb
Linux version of UPAD / TPAD		Zipped 1.9 Mb

For earlier versions see Geosupport Desktop Edition Releases on the BYTES of Big Apple archive page.

Note to Users:  Available to users without a license agreement as of Release 12C.