Kyle Barron's blog

"Hybrid" Python libraries Python is among the most popular programming languages in the world.

Spatial indexes, and RTrees specifically, are at the core of geospatial software engineering.

Posted on the Development Seed blog (https://developmentseed.org/blog/2024-03-29-new-in-lonboard), and embedded below: Keep reading.

Posted on the Development Seed blog (https://developmentseed.org/blog/2023-10-23-lonboard), and embedded below: Keep reading.

JavaScript is missing a battle-tested geometry engine that's performant at scale.

Posted on Observable (https://observablehq.com/@kylebarron/zero-copy-apache-arrow-with-webassembly), and embedded below: Keep reading.

Posted on Observable (https://observablehq.com/@kylebarron/geoarrow-and-geoparquet-in-deck-gl), and embedded below: Keep reading.

Posted on Observable (https://observablehq.com/@kylebarron/geoparquet-on-the-web), and embedded below: Keep reading.

60cm-resolution imagery of the Grand Canyon from 2017.

Overview There's a new way to serve a raster basemap.

Cloudflare is a Content Delivery Network (CDN), a global network of servers that cache responses from websites so that those responses can… Keep reading.

Interactive map Transit connects the densest cities but is also surprisingly prevalent in some remote Western states.

After a few years of having a semi-dead Jekyll-based website, I'm happy to transition to a new website based on GatsbyJS.

Stata is fine for the small stuff, but Python is way better for anything intensive.