• Atlas Miscellaneous: edition 1736977234

    Posted on January 15, 2025

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    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

    Posted on November 22, 2024

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    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

    Posted on November 17, 2024

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    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

    Posted on October 4, 2024

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    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]

  • You are here/there

    Posted on July 10, 2024

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    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]

  • Krakow, October 2021

    Posted on May 8, 2024

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    There is a square in Krakow, Poland, a place I have never been and likely will never have the opportunity to go. Late on an October morning in that square several years ago, the sun slashed in low between cathedral and town hall and onto the intricate patterns of the... [Read More]

  • One for the cyclists

    Posted on April 29, 2024

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    One year ago I wasn’t sure I’d ever run again, but with some patience and lots of support I’m back on the roads and trails, and it’s comfortable. For reasons not totally clear to me or a bunch of earnest medical professionals, my knee just . . . healed. The... [Read More]