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Company
Zoë Cohen
Improving City Transit Networks through Data and Public Policy
Using open source data and easily customizable software, Azavea worked with PeopleForBikes to improve city transit networks.

Software Engineering
Derek Dohler
Introducing Loam: A Client-Side GDAL Wrapper for Javascript
We’re launching a library called Loam. Loam allows GDAL to be used in client-side code in a web application. Loam wraps a version of GDAL compiled to WebAssembly and makes the GDAL API and utilities available to Javascript running from within a web browser.
Software Engineering
Adeel Hassan
Introducing Raster Vision 0.13
This release presents a major jump in Raster Vision’s power and flexibility. The newly added features allow for finer control of the model training as well as greater flexibility in ingesting data.
Software Engineering
James Santucci
Getting Started with STAC APIs
STAC is a specification for enabling online search and discovery of geospatial assets. This post walks through getting started with a number of STAC APIs.
Company
Stacy Deininger
Making Gender Data Actionable
Azavea partnered with Facebook and Ladysmith to make an engaging platform that makes data from a massive gender survey actionable.
Software Engineering
James Santucci
Load Testing a TMS Tile Server with k6.io
k6.io provides a flexible base for load testing with a convenient scripting language, and the quickstart docs will get you pretty far, but testing with a session of TMS requests had some unique challenges.
Company
Deb Boyer
Bringing Open Data to the Apparel Industry
We chatted with the Open Apparel Registry team about how open data and open source are becoming a larger part of the apparel industry.
Software Engineering
James Santucci
Notifications over Websockets with Http4s and Skunk
In an attempt to avoid relying on polling in a front-end application or third-party services, we attempt servicing asynchronous notifications over websockets using only PostgreSQL and Scala.
Software Engineering
Joe Morrison
Betting Big on the Spatiotemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) Standard
We’re investing heavily in the STAC specification – including building a STAC-compatible Python library and server as well contributing to the Label Extension. We’re hoping this work will help accelerate adoption across the geospatial engineering community more broadly.
Software Engineering
Rob Emanuele
Introducing PySTAC: A Core Library for SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs
PySTAC is a Python library for reading, writing, and manipulating SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs. PySTAC 0.3 is now released and ready to use!