Atlas Miscellaneous - 2025-02-12
Another batch of places that caught my eye from above . . .
Amsterdam Centraal
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School diversity in the Northeastern U.S.
With all that’s underway (waves hands around, wildly), I’m narrowing the focus to my interior sphere of attention, to look at local stats on education. [Read More] -
Atlas Miscellaneous: edition 1736977234
As a part of my day job, I spend time on a grand but perplexing tour of the Earth, running QA/QC on the Mapbox Satellite project. It’s my intent to occasionally share some of the views I come across, but more importantly the unexpected things I discover about places I’ve... [Read More] -
How to speedrun Landsat truecolor processing in 2024
I needed moderate resolution, truecolor satellite imagery of Bermuda earlier this week, and I needed it fast. It turned into an exercise in processing efficiency, aided by some wonderful tools and open data programs. As 2024 draws to a close there are many different ways to put together a decent... [Read More] -
Belonging and welcoming
Whose woods these are, I think I know. His trailer’s in the village, though. He will not see me stoppin’ here To smoke a butt and drink some beer. [Read More] -
The Eye of Quebec: before/after
Landsat has spoiled me. I’ve grown accustomed to seeing historical time series of what a place looks like from above, in this era where we’ve been recording those views for half a century. Of course, I very occasionally find myself wondering how Cahokia in the 11th century would have appeared... [Read More] -
The perfect app
This morning, when I woke up in Harlem, I was faced with a series of problems. [Read More] -
You are here/there
The practical work of digital mapping varies pretty wildly from place to place. I was reminded of this as I stumbled onto a great example of the infamous displacement of imagery and road vectors in Google Maps within Chinese territory: [Read More]