Getting Started with STAC APIs
By James Santucci on April 5th, 2021
STAC is a specification for enabling online search and discovery of geospatial assets. This post walks through getting started with a number of STAC APIs.
Making Gender Data Actionable
By Stacy Deininger on March 8th, 2021
Azavea partnered with Facebook and Ladysmith to make an engaging platform that makes data from a massive gender survey actionable.
Load Testing a TMS Tile Server with k6.io
By James Santucci on January 25th, 2021
k6.io provides a flexible base for load testing with a convenient scripting language, and the quickstart docs will get you pretty far, but testing with a session of TMS requests had some unique challenges.
Bringing Open Data to the Apparel Industry
By Deb Boyer on August 31st, 2020
We chatted with the Open Apparel Registry team about how open data and open source are becoming a larger part of the apparel industry.
Notifications over Websockets with Http4s and Skunk
By James Santucci on May 20th, 2020
In an attempt to avoid relying on polling in a front-end application or third-party services, we attempt servicing asynchronous notifications over websockets using only PostgreSQL and Scala.
Betting Big on the Spatiotemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) Standard
By Joe Morrison on November 22nd, 2019
We're investing heavily in the STAC specification - including building a STAC-compatible Python library and server as well contributing to the Label Extension. We're hoping this work will help accelerate adoption across the geospatial engineering community more broadly.