Azavea Blog - Geospatial and Software Development Topics

Choosing a Cell Size for Point Pattern Analysis: Gun Crimes in Baltimore

By Eugene Chong on September 4th, 2020

This analysis applies the Malleson methodology of choosing a spatial unit of analysis to gun crime data for the city of Baltimore. This methodology brings us a bit closer to understanding whether spatial variations in the crime data are picking up real signals or just noise.

Crop of map visualization that shows data for streets in Huntington Park, Philadelphia.

Spatial Analysis

Using GIS to Guide Philadelphia’s First Neighborhood-Level Forestry Plan

By Evelyn Gorey on September 3rd, 2020

The adoption of Philadelphia’s Urban Forest Strategic Plan and Hunting Park’s Forestry Plan presents a unique opportunity to address the need for equitable tree planting and the reduction of heat vulnerability, as these two plans are the city’s first cohesive attempts to prioritize and manage its urban forest.

Company

Bringing Open Data to the Apparel Industry

By Deb Boyer on August 31st, 2020

We chatted with the Open Apparel Registry team about how open data and open source are becoming a larger part of the apparel industry.

Company

This Month We Learned — July 2020

By Alex Lash and James Santucci on August 25th, 2020

This month we learned about fancy responsive CSS borders and OBS Studio scenes.

Software Engineering

PySTAC 0.5.0 for STAC 1.0.0-beta.2

By Rob Emanuele and Simon Kassel on August 17th, 2020

PySTAC 0.5.0 for STAC 1.0.0-beta.2 is released! We're keeping PySTAC up with changes to the spec itself, and rounding out the library with new extensions and features. In this post, we’ll catch you up with what’s new.