Why We Haven’t Taken on Investment
By Robert Cheetham on May 3rd, 2022
20 years on, Azavea has never taken on investor capital. Our CEO, Robert Cheetham, explains why this is the case.
How to code-split GeoJSON layers for your MapBoxGL.js React apps
By Casey Cesari on April 28th, 2022
A recent project required us to implement an interactive map of the United States with a custom counties layer. This is what we learned.
Change detection with Raster Vision
By Adeel Hassan on April 18th, 2022
This blog explores the direct classification approach to change detection using our open-source geospatial deep learning framework, Raster Vision, and the publicly available Onera Satellite Change Detection (OSCD) dataset.
Highlighting NumFocus Projects: How Open Source Projects Empower Our Work
By Alana Hill on April 8th, 2022
NumFocus is a nonprofit that supports many open source tools used in Azavea's projects. Here, we highlight how they have supported our work.
A Tool to Highlight Underfunded and Under-resourced Communities: A Peek Behind the Technical Curtain of Headwaters Economics’ Rural Capacity Index
By Jillian Long and Adeel Hassan on March 30th, 2022
To address the disparity in access to funding resources, we partnered with Headwaters Economics to develop the Rural Capacity Index.
Our Top 3 Netlify Use Cases: Deciding When to Use Netlify
By Alana Hill, Tai Wilkin and Terence Tuhinanshu on March 23rd, 2022
Netlify is a platform for web developers and designers that offers hosting and serverless backend services. Here, we provide Azavea's top three use cases for it and its benefits for our software engineers and designers.