We’ve been headquartered in Ballard since our inception nearly 7 years ago. We love being a part of the neighborhood and for the second year, we’ve had the opportunity to help out the SeafoodFest with an interactive map of festival activities and attractions. This year, we were able to get...

We have been working with the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) for many years and it was our great pleasure to get the opportunity to travel to Nairobi, Kenya to meet many of the AGRA team members in person. AGRA works very hard at making a positive impact...

On Friday, May 20th I participated in Seattle’s Creative Mornings talk to learn about what POP’s technical/creative team has been up to lately. Creative Mornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community. This month’s theme is “Reality” and they invited Dave Curry, VP of Emerging Trends & Technology...

We’re as proud as new parents to announce the launch of a new version of our website, spatialdev.com. The redesign makes it even funner to learn about us and what we do. The site’s simple look and refreshed content are responsive to allow you to better interact with SpatialDev on...

I recently participated in a Missing Maps mapathon for the first time. The meetup group Maptime Seattle, a local chapter of an international geospatial group focused on teaching all things maps, had chosen their monthly topic to be Missing Maps. Missing Maps is a collaboration project between Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team,...

This Sunday is Mother’s Day and a perfect opportunity to reflect on the wonderful mothers at SpatialDev! As a young person on the team, I benefit from having role models that I can look to as examples of how to balance a career and motherhood. The mothers on our team...

We’ve been working and collaborating with the SERVIR team on innovative geospatial technologies for the past several years. Last week, we had the opportunity to attend the SERVIR Global GIT Exchange, 2016 at Marshall Space Flight Center’s National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama. During the week-long event,...

This year was the first time I attended the CUGOS Spring Fling, an annual event billed as “a full day event centered on open source geo” and “an intensely educational session for practitioners of all things open-source geospatial.” The event was held on Friday, April 15, on the University of...

Traditionally, client-server web communication has been unidirectional. Loading new data into the client requires sending http requests to the server. This client-server relationship is the basis of most data-intense web applications we build here at SpatialDev. However, using this approach can present challenges when dealing with real-time data. Displaying frequently...

The SpatialDev team enjoys participating in conferences that are relevant to the work we do and the tools we use. This spring and summer, we have some great opportunities to share some of our recent work and contribute some labor to help put on one of our very favorite conferences....