Redistricting Roundup: 2016 Edition
By Daniel McGlone on September 9th, 2016
Azavea has made a bit of a name for itself in legislative redistricting. After the 2010 U.S. Census, we developed...
2015 Fatal Crash Data by Congressional District Released
By Daniel McGlone on September 2nd, 2016
The Data Analytics team at Azavea decided to take a look at the geography of fatal crashes by Congressional district...
Measuring District Compactness in PostGIS
By Daniel McGlone on July 11th, 2016
Azavea has a long history of promoting good government through civic technology. This includes our collaborations with the Public Mapping...
Announcing our 2016 Summer of Maps Fellows and Projects
By Daniel McGlone on May 2nd, 2016
Summer of Maps offers fellowships to GIS and geography students to perform spatial analysis for nonprofit organizations. The program matches...
How Philadelphians Get To Work: Calculating Mode Share and Dot Density Maps in CartoDB
By Daniel McGlone on February 16th, 2016
To view the full screen map of journey to work in Philadelphia, click here. We’ve seen some great examples of...
Tools for Getting Data out of OpenStreetMap and into Desktop GIS
By Daniel McGlone on December 21st, 2015
Since its inception, OpenStreetMap has crowdsourced the addition of millions of features of spatial data across the world. It’s become...