Author: Robert Cheetham
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Announcing our 2023 Geospatial Tech Radar
Ahead of this year’s FOSS4G North America gathering, we’re rolling out a 2023 edition of our Geospatial Tech Radar idea, which we plan to update annually to track what’s up-and-coming in geospatial techniques, standards, data, and tools/platforms.
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Announcing our 2023 Geospatial Tech Radar
Ahead of this year’s FOSS4G North America gathering, we’re rolling out a 2023 edition of our Geospatial Tech Radar idea, which we plan to update annually to track what’s up-and-coming in geospatial techniques, standards, data, and tools/platforms.
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Selecting a Geospatial Mastodon Server for Individuals and Businesses
At Azavea, interacting with and contributing to the geospatial community is a perpetual highlight of our work. For many years, Twitter has represented a hub of activity within the professional geospatial sphere, and we’ve enjoyed interacting with community members and sharing our work through the platform. In light of the uncertain future of Twitter, both…
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Our 10% Time Program: How We Encourage Innovation Internally
We outline our 10% time program in detail, highlight some notable examples and themes, and describe the impact of the program.
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1% For Open Source: Financial Support for Tools We Use
We donate a portion of our profits each year to support open source projects nominated by our team.
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Why We Haven’t Taken on Investment
20 years on, Azavea has never taken on investor capital. Our CEO, Robert Cheetham, explains why this is the case.
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2022 Trends in Geospatial
Azavea’s CEO Robert Cheetham provides 6 trends he foresees in geospatial this year. These predictions are grounded in Robert’s personal experience and perspective as Azavea CEO.
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Revisiting the Ethics of Project Selection
A major part of how Azavea pursues its mission is tied to how we select our projects. As our work on Earth observation imagery has grown, we felt it was time to develop a guideline around a new industry: energy.
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10 Years into Our Charitable Contributions Program
Ten years ago we started a charitable contributions program. We developed a program that would increase our impact and expand employee ownership.
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Start-Stop-Continue: One Way That We Solicit Feedback
Employee feedback makes our office space and practices better. We implemented Start-Stop-Continue in 2011 to solicit robust and anonymous employee feedback, and have made significant changes and learned a lot since.
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Why We Sold HunchLab
We sold HunchLab, our web-based predictive policing and patrol management system, in the fall of 2018. Our CEO outlines why.
