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This Month We Learned — June 2020

By Ross Bernet, Tyler Gilcrest and James Santucci on July 20th, 2020

This month we learned about Google Earth Engine apps, authenticating with the Google Sheets API, and making smaller tiffs for debugging with gdal_calc.py.

Software Engineering

Introducing Raster Vision 0.12

By Lewis Fishgold on July 9th, 2020

We refactored the Raster Vision codebase from the ground up to make it simpler, more consistent, and more flexible. Check out Raster Vision 0.12.

Screenshot of streets in the Curb LR Viewer.

Spatial Analysis

Maintaining Data on the Curb with CurbLR: A New Open Standard

By Ross Bernet and Simon Kassel on July 7th, 2020

CurbLR is a promising new open data specification for curb regulation. We used it to visualize and analyze Philadelphia's curb management approaches affect on traffic.

Company

This Month We Learned — May 2020

By Jenny Fung, Terence Tuhinanshu, Andrew Fink-Miller and Hector Castro on June 18th, 2020

This month we learned about effective pair programming, baking and painting tiles with gdal2tiles, adding ways to OpenStreetMap with GPS traces, and how to make nubes.

Software Engineering

SpaceNet Data Now Available in GroundWork

By Joe Morrison on June 12th, 2020

Incorporate high-resolution satellite imagery into your labeling projects for free.

Spatial Analysis

How We Built a National Hospital Dataset for Coronavirus Relief

By Simon Kassel on June 9th, 2020

We pulled data from disparate hospital data sources to create a comprehensive national dataset of the hospital system for the COVID-19 response, using geocoding, proximity matching, and fuzzy string matching.

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