Robin Hawkes

If you use GeoTIFF then you’ll be interested in this post from Koko Alberti. In it he takes a detailed look at the various approaches for compressing GeoTIFF and optimising it for lower file size and decent performance, including benchmarks on read/write

An old one but a good one! This relatively short post on the NASA Earth Observatory blog tackles the topic of scaling data in spatial visualisation. Specifically, it looks at the differences between linear and logarithmic methods for stretching the intermediate values and how

In this post, Sajjad Anwar from Development Seed takes a look at the future of OSM and how we’re going to get there. Key takeaways are more focus on verification, better utilisation of AI, and notification when the physical world changes and the

This in-depth article by Georgios Karnas takes a look at the issue of coordinate precision faced by Uber for Deck.gl, their 3D spatial visualisation library. Specifically, Georgios digs into the limitations of floating-point precision in WebGL shaders and details how they worked around

Craig Taylor strikes again with a series of beautiful animated visualisations for TomTom as part of his work at Ito World. The visualisations look at GPS data across the city of Amsterdam and how it can be used to tell a compelling story. The

It’s so easy to forget that digital isn’t the only way that spatial data can be produced and consumed. I’m guilty of this myself and it’s something I’m hoping to improve upon in the future, even if just printing

This six-minute video from Vox takes a whimsical look at why flat maps are distorted and comparing that distortion between projections. It’s angled more towards people new to maps but its slick production value makes it interesting nonetheless.