Volunteers Put 9,000 Buildings on a Map Used to Plan Malaria Eradication Efforts
By Dan Ford on May 11th, 2017
More than 65 volunteers gathered for a 4-hour marathon mapping session – the Philly Mapathon – during PhillyTechWeek to put...
Release of Important City Data On The Line in OpenDataVote
By Dan Ford on April 28th, 2017
OpenDataVote is a cooperative effort between many partners including Azavea, Tech Impact, Technical.ly Media, Code for Philly, the City of Philadelphia and...
3 Free Webinars on Data-Driven Advocacy for Nonprofits
By Dan Ford on April 26th, 2017
The Azavea Data Analytics Team recently developed three webinars that walked nonprofits through the analytics techniques and tools they use to...
This Philly Tech Week Event Provides Volunteers Opportunity to Help Millions
By Dan Ford on April 20th, 2017
According to the Missing Maps program, nearly 100,000 people are killed as a result of disasters each year, and about...
A World’s Worth of VectorTiles
By Colin Woodbury on March 7th, 2017
Azavea is pursuing the development of a free-and-open-source pipeline for mass conversion of OpenStreetMap data to Mapbox VectorTiles. The project...
Text Analysis of Congress Response to #MuslimBan
By Esther Needham on February 3rd, 2017
Last week Trump signed Executive Order 13769 which banned refugees from 7 countries from entering the United States for a...