Azavea Blog - Geospatial and Software Development Topics

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Software Engineering

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.

Open Apparel Registry

Software Engineering

Introducing the Open Apparel Registry

By Deb Boyer on March 28th, 2019

We are excited to announce the launch of the Open Apparel Registry, an open source global map of garment producing facilities.

Software Engineering

The Power of Types in Idris

By Peter Caisse on March 11th, 2019

Idris is a pure, statically-typed functional language with a powerful type system. Let's explore writing code in Idris using type-driven development and interactive editing.

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Software Engineering

Lessons on tree-shaking Lodash with Webpack and Babel

By Casey Cesari on March 7th, 2019

Tree-shaking lodash can reduce the size of your JavaScript bundle, but it requires that a few conditions are met along the way to implementing it.

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5 Tips to Making The Most of It at An Activist Conference

By Stacy Henderson on March 6th, 2019

Last month we attended an activitst conference and learned a few things that we thought might be helpful to others in the political advocacy space.

Software Engineering

Introducing TileJSON.io, A Fast and Easy Way to View and Share Raster Tiles

By Shreshth Khilani on March 4th, 2019

TileJSON.io is an open source project by Azavea. It is an easy way to view and share raster tile sets using slippy map endpoints.