Azavea Blog - Geospatial and Software Development Topics

Azavea employee presenting GIS training in Guyana.

Developing Countries, Capacity Building, and SDGs

By Fernando Ramirez on May 30th, 2019

Utilizing earth imagery to achieve all 17 UN SDGs by 2030 will take considerate effort. In order to do this effectively, we must include training and capacity building in our solutions.

Software Engineering

Lessons in Functional API Development from Haskell’s Servant and Http4s

By James Santucci on May 20th, 2019

As a 10% time project, we replicated a small piece of the Raster Foundry backend code in Haskell, using servant for the REST interface and postgresql-simple for database interaction.

Company

Make an Election Calendar with D3.js and Observable Notebooks

By Luke McKinstry on May 14th, 2019

We made a quick election calendar using the Cicero database and Observable Notebooks. This tutorial shows how you can replicate using D3.js.

Crop of an interactive map showing census blocks in West Virginia with the life expectancy of one highlighted.

Spatial Analysis

Analyzing Spatial Patterns in Life Expectancy with Python

By Simon Kassel on May 2nd, 2019

All around the country boundaries separate neighborhoods with high and low life expectancy. We used python to find the most extreme examples.

Screenshot of a map displaying the 50 new cities added to Cicero's database.

Company

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.

Parts of map highlighted overlaid on a photograph of a bee.

Software Engineering

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.