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The JavaScript Cave: Watch Your Step!
If I had to describe what it’s like to work in JavaScript, I’d have to say, “it’s like the cave scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.” The language is one booby trap after another. You can never let your guard down. Developers new to JavaScript don’t realize that the language is out to get […]
Introducing: Raster Vision v0.20
We outline Raster Vision V0.20, introducing new features, improved documentation, and an entirely new way to use the project.
Why is some documentation better than others?
We outline how to ensure your documentation is accessible for both users and developers.
How to print a MapBoxGL.js map to a PDF in React
To generate a printable document that is well-formatted, we break down the implementation process to print a Mapbox map to a PDF in React.
The Bread and Butter of Software Development: Informing My Learning Through Professional Baking
Azavean Rachele Morino outlines her career transition from baking to software engineering, and where the two professions overlap.
14 Years of Helping to Manage Stormwater in Philadelphia
A recap of Azavea’s partnership with the Philadelphia Water Department to support Philadelphia’s Green City, Clean Waters plan.
Benchmarking Zarr and Parquet Data Retrieval using the National Water Model (NWM) in a Cloud-native environment
In order to benchmark efficiency, we take a deep dive into Zarr and Parquet data retrieval to compare performance on various time scales.
How to code-split GeoJSON layers for your MapBoxGL.js React apps
A recent project required us to implement an interactive map of the United States with a custom counties layer. This is what we learned.
Change detection with Raster Vision
This blog explores the direct classification approach to change detection using our open-source geospatial deep learning framework, Raster Vision, and the publicly available Onera Satellite Change Detection (OSCD) dataset.
Cloud Optimized Formats: NetCDF-as-Zarr Optimizations and Next Steps
At Element 84 we help groups rethink how they approach technology and are particularly focused on supporting migration to the cloud. As we moved from local hard drives to the cloud, there are things we took for granted when it came to file formats. On your own hard drive reads are cheap and latency is […]