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    An occasional blog about mapping, history, art, and technology
    • Atlas Miscellaneous - April 2025

      Victorian Ghosts in the water

      Posted on April 21, 2025

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

      Coconuts and Ruins.

      Posted on March 15, 2025

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      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

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

      Posted on January 25, 2025

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      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

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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]
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