Don Meltz Planning and GIS

06/28/2020

Updates to the Services page on my website:
http://www.donmeltz.com/services/

06/13/2020

Changes made to the website. More to come.
www.donmeltz.com

06/01/2018

New blog post about gluing together a few open source tools:
"Open Source Spatial Data Processing Suite"

Gluing Things Together As I described in a previous post, Boundless no longer maintains publicly accessible versions of Boundless Suite nor the suite formerly known as OpenGeo in their repositories…

10/26/2017

Mark Monmonier, author of How to Lie with Maps, joins the PolicyViz Podcast to talk about the good and bad of maps and how to avoid distorting your data.

10/20/2017

A city built around technology, instead of people.
What could go wrong?

Here’s an opportunity to develop “the world’s first neighborhood built from the internet up,” but will humans be put first?

07/26/2017

Register now for the webinar 8/10/2017 from 12-1pm: Intro to by software developer and mapmaker . Register at www.nysgis.net

05/19/2017

A little something I put together in my spare time a few weeks ago.
HexBin US States in a variety of geo formats.
These can be used as a replacement for those ugly and usually undecipherable cartograms you see occasionally. It's one way to visually normalize data by factoring out the area of the map unit.
See my GitHub repository:
https://github.com/donmeltz/US-States---Hexbins

US-States---Hexbins - US State features in a uniform Hexbin hexagonal shape

05/12/2017

I've been playing around with R the last few days. I figured I should brush up on my stats skills, and how to apply them to geo analysis. Here's a screen cap of an R Demo - Plotting points over a Google Maps basemap using R. Surprising what you can do with it.