Azavea Blog - Geospatial and Software Development Topics

Announcing the Winners of Map Across America: A National Redistricting Competition

By Alana Hill on December 7th, 2021

DistrictBuilder, Azavea’s free redistricting tool, recently held a competition in partnership with the Public Mapping Project to encourage more participation in the redistricting process.

Design

Partnering with Probable Futures to Visualize Climate Change Data and Inspire Action

By Jillian Long on November 29th, 2021

With Probable Futures, Azavea designed a web-based tool that informs the public on the local impacts of climate change and drives action.

Software Engineering

The Azavea Cloud Dataset

By James McClain on August 2nd, 2021

Azavea is releasing a dataset consisting of 32 unique Sentinel-2 tiles with cloud labels produced by humans.

Company

Improving City Transit Networks through Data and Public Policy

By Zoë Cohen on July 21st, 2021

Using open source data and easily customizable software, Azavea worked with PeopleForBikes to improve city transit networks.

Software Engineering

Introducing Loam: A Client-Side GDAL Wrapper for Javascript

By Derek Dohler on May 3rd, 2021

We're launching a library called Loam. Loam allows GDAL to be used in client-side code in a web application. Loam wraps a version of GDAL compiled to WebAssembly and makes the GDAL API and utilities available to Javascript running from within a web browser.