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Coastal Resilience Wins Kudos and Awards
Were you watching the live feed of the UN Climate Summit in NY in September? No? Well, if you’d been watching, you would have seen Jack Dangermond announce the winners of the first Esri Global Disaster Resilience App Challenge. On September 23rd during Climate Week in New York, The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction…
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Coastal Resilience Wins Kudos and Awards
Were you watching the live feed of the UN Climate Summit in NY in September? No? Well, if you’d been watching, you would have seen Jack Dangermond announce the winners of the first Esri Global Disaster Resilience App Challenge. On September 23rd during Climate Week in New York, The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction…
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Creating a Cost Distance Surface to Measure Park Access
In this blog we discuss creating a cost distance surface to measure park access.
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Raster Versus Vector Visualization
In this blog, we compare raster and vector visualization, and describe our work with Girlstart and City Harvest, two east-coast-based non-profits.
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Lessons in Cartography
Cartography tips and tricks related to color palates, labels, data frames, and map extents.
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An ‘Atypical’ Approach to Analyzing Tree Canopy Cover
In this post, we describe our experience working with TreePeople to analyze tree canopy cover.
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GeoTrellis Selected for Three Google Summer of Code 2014 Projects
GeoTrellis, our open-source framework, is a recipient of three Google Summer of Code fellowships, a global competitive program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects.
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Good Planning Begins with Good Data: Mapping Tools for Community Organizers
In this post, we detail the most interesting topics and questions from a course run by the City of Philadelphia’s City Planning Commission for community organizers.
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Which Candidates for Governor of Pennsylvania Support Open Data?
In this post we outline which candidates for Governor of Pennsylvania support open data principles.
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OpenDataPhilly is getting an upgrade and more funding
Learn more about the latest funding updates to OpenDataPhilly.
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SBIR Grant Obtained to Develop Web-based, Hyper Local Climate Impact Assessment Modeling Service
Learn more about our SBIR grant and our plans to develop a web-based, hyper local climate impact assessment modeling service.