Azavea Journal

Philly is the Space Apps Challenge Global MainStage: Join Us!
Do You Know Your Philly Neighborhoods?
What the Heck is “Citizen Science”?
What’s in the Works…
Best of the Blogs
Upcoming Conferences and Events

Philly is the Space Apps Challenge Global MainStage: Join Us!

Azavea developers and staff (including yours truly) are no strangers to civic hackathons. We’ve hosted Code for America hackathons before, organized and ran Hacks for Democracy last fall, and we have attended and/or sponsored events such as the Washington Post’s Election Hackathon, Random Hacks of Kindness, TechCamp Philadelphia, and many others. We are particularly excited

Do You Know Your Philly Neighborhoods?

While working on a project for Philadelphia Department of Records, Azavea staff revisited and revised a map delineating the neighborhoods of Philadelphia. It started out simply enough, with an analyst cleaning up the file geometry and working on a cartographic representation. But once the map was printed out and left on a table in the

What the Heck is “Citizen Science”?

What do trees, AEDs, galaxies, birds, bees and whales all have in common? Science, of course. We often associate big scientific breakthroughs with one or two key people. Think Benjamin Franklin, the kite and the lightning. But scientific research more often involves teams of people that collaborate across many locations and even internationally. And over

What’s in the Works…

Here are some projects that our teams are building and you’ll be hearing more about in the coming months: DistrictBuilder Enhancements – You might think that with the redistricting for the 2010 Census mostly wrapped up, we’d be mothballing the DistrictBuilder project. But redistricting in a basic democratic process for legislatures with geographic representation and is ongoing

Best of the Blogs

- Summer of Maps Student Applications are Open – Applying Map Algebra – Part 1 – Applying Map Algebra – Part 2 – GeoTrellis 0.8 Has Arrived! – Unit Testing Apps with JSTest.Net and require.js – WMS On Android

Esri Business Partner Conference/International Developer Summit
Palm Springs, CA – March 23-28, 2013
Robert Cheetham is attending.

OSGeo Code Sprint
Boston, MA – March 25-28, 2013
Azavea is sponsoring and several staff are participating.

Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise
Philadelphia, PA – April 2-3, 2013
Several people from Azavea will be attending.

GISWORX
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – April 2-4, 2013
Robert Cheetham will be attending

NASA International SpaceApps Challenge
Philadelphia, PA and all over the Planet – April 20-21, 2013
Azavea is organizing the Global MainStage event in Philadelphia. Stay tuned!

Transparency Camp
Washington, DC – May 4-5, 2013
Robert Cheetham will be attending.

2013 Inner City 100 Symposium
Boston, MA – May 21, 2013
Robert Cheetham and Rachel Cheetham-Richard will be attending.

Personal Democracy Forum
New York, NY – June 6-7, 2013
Robert Cheetham will be attending.