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Apr 18

Using Serval to Fix Rasters

I’m making some more dive maps and this time I’m looking at the Channel Islands. In my bathymetry rasters I’m running into this weird series of holes in the seabed that are just too uniform to be anything other than anomalies in the data collection and processing. Sometimes there are…

Elevation

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Using Serval to Fix Rasters
Using Serval to Fix Rasters

Dec 11, 2021

YouTube as Remote Sensing

I’m starting to carve myself a fun niche in the cartographic community by making scuba diving maps and they’re getting attention. From my friends at least. …

Open Source

6 min read

YouTube as Remote Sensing
YouTube as Remote Sensing

Dec 2, 2021

Manual Raster Manipulation or, How Making Sh*t Up is Good Actually

I’ve been working on a project for a few years now and it feels like every few months I come up with a new way to make my maps a little better, a little more complicated and a lot more labor intensive. At no point are the maps ever more…

Cartography

11 min read

Manual Raster Manipulation or, How Making Sh*t Up is Good Actually
Manual Raster Manipulation or, How Making Sh*t Up is Good Actually

Aug 27, 2021

Obituary for a Rabbit

We don’t live with animals in the hope that they’ll do our bidding. We live with them so that they surprise us, and lick us, and worry us, and pee in our beds, and snuggle on the couch with us and pose just barely long enough to take a picture…

3 min read

Obituary for a Rabbit
Obituary for a Rabbit

May 12, 2021

Making Grids for North Arrows and Scale Bars

No one gets tattoos of scale bars. They’re not nearly as pretty as a compass rose, you never see as much variation or style in them and I think the best that can be said for them is that you can tuck them out of the way and forget about…

Cartography

6 min read

Making Grids for North Arrows and Scale Bars
Making Grids for North Arrows and Scale Bars

Nov 6, 2020

Go Fly A Kite

“Go fly a kite” is very nearly a perfect metaphor for “fuck off and do nothing” and we have Mary Poppins (1964) to thank. A stuffy English patrician, a banker literally named George Banks, gets fired from his job only to realize that his regimented aristocratic life is an absurd…

Maps

14 min read

Go Fly A Kite
Go Fly A Kite

Sep 25, 2020

Packing Your Digital Go-Bag

At the beginning of fire season in 2019 I visited the Situation Room at PG&E’s downtown San Francisco headquarters and it was like walking onto a movie set. There were floor-to-ceiling monitors and rows of analysts watching live-streams from remote webcams on fire watch towers and dashboards tracking Twitter, weather…

Fire

20 min read

Packing Your Digital Go-Bag
Packing Your Digital Go-Bag

Aug 16, 2020

Imagining Solitude with ‘Winter Road’

A good college friend wheedled me into writing this all the way back in May so that I could submit it to an online magazine that was trying to catalog how art is helping people get through these wild times. I got a lovely personalized rejection note from the publisher…

Art

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Imagining Solitude with ‘Winter Road’
Imagining Solitude with ‘Winter Road’

Jun 1, 2020

Oakland May 29, 2020

There’s a lot that I don’t know about Friday night. As I understand it, riots are not often understood well but this one for me was particularly chaotic and disorienting. I’ve been to marches and protests aplenty but none quite like this. I want to provide as much context as…

9 min read

Oakland May 29, 2020
Oakland May 29, 2020

May 23, 2020

Your DSLR is Dumb

I was hanging out (at a distance) with my friends at the beach last weekend and one of their friends (at a distance) was asking me about cameras. I currently had one of my own dangling about 150 feet above our heads from a kite taking pictures. Presumably this advertises…

Photography

7 min read

Your DSLR is Dumb
Your DSLR is Dumb
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