The notion of a golden hammer, “a familiar technology or concept applied obsessively to many software problems”, was introduced into information technology literature in 1998 as an anti-pattern: a programming practice to be avoided.1 For the past few weeks, I...
In our previous post, Bringing Your Maps into Focus, we covered a two-step process using GDAL. There is a lot going on in the second step, internal tiling and overviews. These processes are hard to research and understand what’s really...
Here at Emory, we have some pretty cool old maps of Atlanta that we wanted to share in a more interactive way. But when we tried, the maps looked like this: See the Pen eExoyO by Jay Varner (@jayvarner) on...