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Using NAIP Imagery and a Texture Raster to Model the Urban Forest
This post walks through a method to help increase accuracy of classification by using a texture raster to distinguish between trees and other vegetation.
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Using NAIP Imagery and a Texture Raster to Model the Urban Forest
This post walks through a method to help increase accuracy of classification by using a texture raster to distinguish between trees and other vegetation.
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Redistricting Roundup: 2016 Edition
In this blog we give an update on all of the redistricting litigation and news we tracked during the 2016 election cycle.
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2015 Fatal Crash Data by Congressional District Released
In this post, we take a look at the geography of fatal crashes by Congressional district in the U.S in response to the recent release of the 2015 Traffic Fatalities data and call to action.
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Getting Started Exploring All 1.5 Million Nonprofits in the US
In this post we discuss how to find and categorize data about all of the 1.5 million US nonprofits.
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Updated Philadelphia Political Ward Data on OpenDataPhilly
In this post, we discuss our findings after compiling historic Philadelphia political ward data and ward division data from different sources.
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Civic Apps Team React/Redux Project Structure
In this blog, we discuss our experience moving to using React/Redux and Webpack to build our JavaScript applications.
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Measuring District Compactness in PostGIS
In this blog we discuss strategies for measuring district compactness in PostGIS.
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Serving Local Mapbox Vector Tiles with Docker
In this post we outline how to serve local Mapbox vector tiles with Docker.
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Using Pythonโs LXML in Amazon Lambda
In this post, we detail our experience using Python’s LXML in Amazon Lambda.
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GeoTrellis 0.10.0 is released
This post details the GeoTrellis 0.10 release including all significant changes and improvements.