Geospatial Data Scientist
Bookstores have a lot of printed world atlases, which are nice to look at but have the trade off that each country is shown either once with a tradeoff of physical and political attributes, or in multiple maps that are not overlaid. Online maps often have impressive visualizations of particular places, but rarely cover all [ ]
OpenStreetMap and the OSMnx add-on for viewing streets as a network can be used to find the steepest streets in a neighborhood. Loosely based on their tutorial, we find the steepest streets in my home San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Millbrae, make a map of street grades that turned out to be useful for [ ]
My brother Andrew wrote a walking tour of the historical roots of the modern steel industry, Sheffield s Don Valley for his blog. The open-source software uMap with an OpenStreetMap base can be used to turn this into a visual tour with a map, walking route, text and photographs. uMap can be used similarly for any [ ]