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Analyzing Violence in South Seattle

The corner of 37th & Oregon is about a 15 minute walk from my house in Columbia City. Last week it was a candidate for the ignominious title of most dangerous place in America. On July 9th, a person was fatally shot there: 5 days later on July 14th, a second person was fatally shot visiting… Continue reading Analyzing Violence in South Seattle

Published July 16, 2017
Categorized as Seattle Tagged crime, gis, Open Data

Finding Nearby Things in QGIS (Tutorial)

If you get excited by maps and places, here’s a reasonably common problem: I’ve got a set of locations (e.g., landmarks) I’ve got another set of locations (e.g., points of interest) and those points have additional metadata (e.g., a star rating for each place) I’d like to find all the points of interest with at… Continue reading Finding Nearby Things in QGIS (Tutorial)

Published July 6, 2017
Categorized as Technology Tagged gis, qgis, tutorial

Mapping the City

I went to the Conflux Festival on Saturday morning and attended a talk by Matt Knutzen entitled Rebuilding the Historical City.  Matt’s a cartographer working at the NYPL and he was explaining a new tool they’ve built – and the Very Big Idea behind the tool. The NYPL has over 60,000 maps of NYC in… Continue reading Mapping the City

Published September 22, 2009
Categorized as History, NYC, Technology Tagged gis, google earth, maps, nypl, open street maps

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