Azavea Blog - Geospatial and Software Development Topics

How the Census counts people living in group quarters and what it means for redistricting

By Luke McKinstry on July 25th, 2022

The US Census counts most people in their residence using the household survey, but the group quarters count is particularly relevant to drawing district boundaries and impacts the redistricting process.

Company

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.

Software Engineering

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.

Software Engineering

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.

Company

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.

Spatial Analysis

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.

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