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Updating our Geospatial Technology Radar for 2024
We introduce the second iteration of our geospatial technology radar, which is designed as a resource for the community to outline impactful technologies in the space.
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Updating our Geospatial Technology Radar for 2024
We introduce the second iteration of our geospatial technology radar, which is designed as a resource for the community to outline impactful technologies in the space.
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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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Our next era: Azavea joins Element 84
The geospatial and Earth Observation communities are tight knit. As purpose-driven organizations in this ecosystem, Element 84 and Azavea share many of the same priorities and values in an industry that is often focused on positive societal impact. As of February 16, 2023, this shared focus will manifest through the organizations coming together under the…
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FOSS4G Nashville 2022
I attended and gave a talk at FOSS4G Nashville 2022. This was a short, 1.5 day hybrid conference with about 30 in-person attendees and an unknown number of folks watching and giving presentations online. Howard Butler gave a keynote talk entitled “Serve data, not services,” and my talk was titled “STAC software, now and looking…
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Announcing the Winners of Map Across America: A National Redistricting Competition
DistrictBuilder, Azavea’s free redistricting tool, recently held a competition in partnership with the Public Mapping Project to encourage more participation in the redistricting process.
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E84 at the July 2021 ESIP Meeting
We are looking forward to the ESIP Meeting this week, July 19-23, 2021. Our engagement with ESIP is deep. Element 84 (E84) has been a member of ESIP since 2014 and we have sponsored every ESIP meeting since they started their meeting sponsor program in July 2017, making this our 8th sponsorship! By supporting ESIP,…
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E84 at the 2020 AGU Fall Meeting
As we wrap up 2020, we are looking forward to the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, the largest meeting of geoscientists in the world. #AGU20 is scheduled from 1-17 December and in this remote format will accommodate over a thousand hours of virtual content to minimize conflicts while maximizing global engagement! The theme for…
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Summer ESIP 2020
We’re passionate about Earth Science Data and helping to solve the challenges in that field. At this year’s ESIP Summer Meeting, we have four E84 team members speaking and moderating across multiple sessions. Here’s where you can find us if you want to chat! STAC and Sentinel-2 Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC) is an…
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Hosting An Online Conference: Philly Emerging Technology for the Enterprise (ETE)
Conferences are great for a variety of reasons–getting exposed to cool up-and-coming technologies, connecting with old friends, and doing recruiting and business development. For the last few years, I’ve been a co-organizer for Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (ETE)–a fantastic developer-focused conference that has run in Philadelphia for fourteen years. While ETE was planned…
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E84 ❤️ Gatsby & JAMstack – Introducing Gatsby [Spark]
The JAMstack generally has become ubiquitous as a solid and reliable architecture for building applications for the web. As much as we didn’t know it, the JAMstack has been part of E84’s blood before the term was coined, as we worked through application challenges focusing on serving static applications and websites using AWS S3 and…