RI Wildfire Compare

Date Category Map Tags maps

Easily compare the size difference between the largest wildfires in California history, and the current on going wildfires in Canada. This map shifts & reprojects the outline of each fire over the center of Rhode Island and shows details about the duration and number of acres burned.

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RI Redistricting Maps

Explore the upcoming Rhode Island redistricting plans with this side-by-side map. Pull the bar in the middle left or right to reveal plan A on the left in yellow and plan B on the right in blue. You filter for house/senate in the menu to the right, selecting a district will zoom to that area centering the 2 divided choices.

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Then & Now Historical Swipe Map

Explore the geographic changes each decade since the 1950's with satellite imagery data in this interactive swipe map. Pull the bar in the middle left or right to reveal the modern (2020) map and compare it with your choice of time period. There are 13 included "Quick Location" just a few interesting samples, feel free to pan and explore the map on your own.

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RI Dunkin' Isochrone Map

Date Category Map Tags dunkin

It's been over 2 years since my reddit Distance to Nearest Dunkin' post and i've been looking for a geo related Python project. So I decided to revisit and update it to address some of the issues with my first map that people pointed out. Mainly, I tackled the "as the crow flies" issue by using isolines that show drive-time and adhere to the roadway limitations.

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Northeast Dunkin' Maps

Date Category Map Tags dunkin

For National Donut Day I recreated my "RI Dunkin Map" for all of the Northeast states. The maps contain 1 to 5 mile buffer rings around every dunkin and layers it over the given state. This time, rather then using QGIS which is a bit of a lengthy process. I chose to automate 90% of the work with Python, the processing is done with GeoPandas and Shapely, while the mapping with Matplotlib.

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Optimal Route to Every RI Dunkin'

Date Category Map Tags Map / gif

The closest path to every Dunkin' in the state from 3 specific locations. From the center of the state, the state airport and the state house in Providence. Through using pandas and requests to query GraphHopper Routing API locally.

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