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Entries tagged gis in 2020

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Weeknotes: California Protected Areas in Datasette

This week I built a geospatial search engine for protected areas in California, shipped datasette-graphql 1.0 and started working towards the next milestone for Datasette Cloud.

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2 am / 28th August 2020 / atom, gis, projects, markdown, graphql, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud

Things I learned about shapefiles building shapefile-to-sqlite

The latest in my series of x-to-sqlite tools is shapefile-to-sqlite. I learned a whole bunch of things about the ESRI shapefile format while building it.

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5:25 am / 19th February 2020 / gis, projects, shapefiles, spatialite, sqlite, geojson, weeknotes, tommacwright

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