Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_geography) I was catching up with my friend and former boss, Tony Quartararo, a couple of days ago when our discussion got around…
Tag: COVID-19
Attribute Transfer in PostGIS Using Spatial SQL
Data conflation is a meat-and-potatoes task in most GIS workflows. There are numerous reasons one might need to get data from one data set into another. Perhaps you want to attach a new geometry type to existing attributes or a table. Or maybe you need to pull attributes from one or more data sets into…
Watching COVID-19 Data for Your County with PostgreSQL and Node
I have addressed the topic of triggered notifications a couple of times on this blog previously. I’ve taken the opportunity to apply the technique to a current use case – the ability to get notifications whenever the confirmed count of COVID-19 cases changes in my county or surrounding ones. I am basing this workflow on…