Civic Apps Team React/Redux Project Structure
By Casey Cesari on August 4th, 2016
The Civic Apps team is a professional services group at Azavea. This means we work on a large number of...
Using Python’s LXML in Amazon Lambda
By Hector Castro on June 27th, 2016
We recently set out to do some XML processing within Amazon Lambda at Azavea using Python and the LXML library....
GeoTrellis 0.10.0 is released
By Rob Emanuele on April 19th, 2016
The long awaited GeoTrellis 0.10 release is here! It’s been a while since the 0.9 release of GeoTrellis, and there...
Converting Mapbox Studio Vector Tiles to Rasters
By Laurence Liss on May 29th, 2015
If you’ve tried to make your own custom map styles before you’ve probably used MapBox Studio or its predecessor, Tilemill....
Selecting a NAT Instance Size on EC2
By Jeremy Heffner on January 5th, 2015
We’ve been using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) functionality to create an isolated and secure hosting...
Running Vagrant with Ansible Provisioning on Windows
By Michael Maurizi on October 30th, 2014
At Azavea we use Ansible and custom ansible roles quite a bit. We’ve also been using Vagrant for quite some...