News Archive

May 22, 2012

Google is using a data set provided by the Cicero API

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The Google Politics, Elections, and Public Sector Team are now using the Cicero API's newly redistricted Congressional districts boundary set. This information provides a national map of con… continue reading
May 9, 2012

The release of GeoTrellis is a featured story on InfoTech Spotlight

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Anshu Shrivastava of InfoTech Spotlight talks about the release of GeoTrellis and the objectives of this new product. Read more here. continue reading
May 8, 2012

Azavea's newest product, GeoTrellis, is highlighted on InfoQ and The H Open

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  Michael Stal of InfoQ talks about the release of GeoTrellis, an open source data processing engine for high performance applications. Continue reading...   The H Open mentions … continue reading
May 7, 2012

NewsWorks talks Azavea and the Visualizing Emancipation project

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Shannon McDonald of WHYY NewsWorks talks about the project that Azavea, along with University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab, helped create. Visualizing Emancipation maps different ev… continue reading
May 4, 2012

Technically Philly features the University of Richmond "Visualizing Emancipation" project that Azavea helped build

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Yael Borofsky of Technically Philly talks about "Visualizing Emancipation", the project built by the University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab and Azavea. This project is an interactive map that … continue reading
May 3, 2012

Azavea Software Developers among the top two winners at "News" Hackathon during Philly Tech Week

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Christopher Wink of Technically Philly highlights the participants and winners of the fourth annual BarCamp NewsInnovation hackathon that was held during Philly Tech Week. The top prize was given to A… continue reading
May 3, 2012

Azavea Announces the Release of GeoTrellis, an Open Source High Performance Geographic Data Processing Engine and Programming Toolkit

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GeoTrellis enables analysis applications that have previously only been possible with a workstation GIS to be made available online and in mobile applications. Philadelphia, PA, May 3, 2012 – A… continue reading
May 1, 2012

Azavea Journal: Volume 7, Issue 2 - May 2012

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Introducing our newest product, GeoTrellis; Visualizing and Mapping Emancipation; The Launch of the REST Version of the Cicero API; Summer of Maps: And The Winners Are.....; Office Expansion 2.0; Joe … continue reading
April 30, 2012

University of Richmond's "Visualizing Emancipation" Project is receiving a lot of attention in the media

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    Caitlin Dempsey of GIS Lounge explains the objective of the Visualizing Emancipation project that the University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab and Azavea have launched. Visua… continue reading
April 26, 2012

Azavea Announces Winners for its Inaugural ‘Summer of Maps’, a Summer Fellowship Program that Offers Stipends to GIS Students to Perform Spatial Analysis for Non-Profits

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Two GIS students from the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to receive $5,000 each to perform pro bono geospatial analysis work for non-profits over the summer&n… continue reading