Geospatial

Published on
June 6, 2024
Houston has topography: Looking at why Buffalo Bayou does not drain to the sea, directly
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What a relative elevation map referenced against large rivers and coastline can tell us about why Buffalo Bayou flows east instead of south south east like many rivers in the area.
Published on
November 20, 2023
Share back what you built with open source and open data maintainers
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Sharing what you build with those that you built upon puts energy back into the open source and open data systems. Free does not have to mean invisible.
Published on
January 10, 2023
Maps that Speak
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A hackathon project to get floodplain map data delivered as speech and experienced while on the move. Now wondering if another type of data would make more sense for this type of approach?
Published on
September 10, 2022
Finding Floodplain GEOJSONs
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Lessons learned trying to find GEOJSONs of FEMA floodplains.