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Man in sweater riding electric scooter through streets.

The Scooters Are Coming: Let’s Require Data This Time

By Robert Cheetham on July 10th, 2019

Open data and open standards can play a central role in providing safe, equitable, and efficient transportation for everyone. The scooters are coming. We should demand data this time.

Viridis color scheme applied to analysis of part of the U.S.

Software Engineering

Introducing WMS and WCS Support for GeoTrellis and Raster Foundry

By Nathan Zimmerman on July 3rd, 2019

Raster Foundry and GeoTrellis now support WMS and WCS standards, enabling streamlined workflows that utilize multiple data sources.

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.

Districts of Philadelphia overlaid on top of a photo of a child swinging with the sky and playground in the background.

Spatial Analysis

Scoring Philadelphia’s City Council Districts for Children’s Health and Well-being

By Daniel McGlone on April 16th, 2019

Scoring Philadelphia City Council districts on assets and risks using a weighted spatial analysis model in R and Python.

Spatial Analysis

Enhancing GIS Capacity with OpenStreetMap

By Esther Needham on February 27th, 2019

We're working with the Inter-American Development Bank to improve the GIS capacity of Guyana with tools built to extract OpenStreetMap data.

Company

How Azavea Selects Projects

By Robert Cheetham on January 9th, 2019

As a mission-based organization, how we select the projects we pursue is an ongoing conversation at Azavea. We share our thought process here.