Access Local Elected Official Data for Canadian Cities
By Stephanie Thome on April 25th, 2019
The Cicero database is expanding to cover elected officials and electoral districts in 50 new Canadian cities.
Using Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs) for More Efficient Web App Architecture
By Jenny Fung on April 23rd, 2019
Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs) are geoTIFFs hosted on a cloud or file server, and are optimized for remote reads. They proved useful in a recent project.
Blacksburg, VA Finds Their “TurboTax™ for Climate Vulnerability Assessments” in Temperate
By Stacy Henderson on April 17th, 2019
This case study showcases how Temperate is uniquely poised to walk cities through the confusing process of conducting a climate vulnerability assessment.
Scoring Philadelphia’s City Council Districts for Children’s Health and Well-being
By Daniel McGlone on April 16th, 2019
Scoring Philadelphia City Council districts on assets and risks using a weighted spatial analysis model in R and Python.
Raster Vision 0.9 Release Candidate
By Lewis Fishgold on April 15th, 2019
This release of Raster Vision includes bug fixes, an easier setup, improved performance, and the ability to train models off of labels in OSM.
Aster Vision – A New Open Source Framework for Deep Learning on Astrospatial Imagery and Space Exploration
By James Santucci on April 1st, 2019
Aster Vision is an open source machine learning library for analyzing huge troves of astrospatial data and finding habitable planets around nearby stars.