Shoals

An occasional blog about mapping, history, art, and technology

Beautiful Capital

Posted on May 9, 2025

Last fall I visited the Morgan Museum and Library with my family in New York City. We took in the special exhibition of famed librarian Belle da Costa Greene, and even my children were able to grasp the significance of the original Gutenberg Bible. Something in the collection that we... [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - April 2025

Victorian Ghosts in the water

Posted on April 21, 2025

Brighton, UK [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - 2025-03-15

Coconuts and Ruins.

Posted on March 15, 2025

Lunuwila, Sri Lanka [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - 2025-02-12

Another batch of places that caught my eye from above . . .

Posted on February 15, 2025

Amsterdam Centraal [Read More]
School diversity in the Northeastern U.S.

Posted on January 25, 2025

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

Posted on January 15, 2025

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

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

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]