Analyzing places, resources and networks.https://alo.mn/enhttps://alo.mn/gas-station-site-selection/https://alo.mn/gas-station-site-selection/Ranking every corner parcel around Austin by how much it resembles the places convenience stores with fuel actually get built.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alo.mn/floodplain-pain/https://alo.mn/floodplain-pain/Calculating absolute and relative Special Flood Hazard Area for Texas land parcels.Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://alo.mn/contiguously-ish-owned-land/https://alo.mn/contiguously-ish-owned-land/Identify and aggregate land parcels that are either contiguous or nearby and share common ownership attributes using PySAL and NetworkX.Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://alo.mn/building-a-po-boys-spatial-data-pipeline-from-scratch-with-dagster-geoparquet-r2/https://alo.mn/building-a-po-boys-spatial-data-pipeline-from-scratch-with-dagster-geoparquet-r2/Here I build a simple geospatial data pipeline to fetch data from ArcGIS Feature Servers and write / read it to GeoParquet in Cloudflare R2.Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://alo.mn/mapping-national-weather-service-hazards-with-fused-h3/https://alo.mn/mapping-national-weather-service-hazards-with-fused-h3/Here we use Fused.io to fetch current NWS hazards, fill them with H3 cells, and produce a serverless endpoint anyone can call.Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://alo.mn/proximity-overlay-site-selection/https://alo.mn/proximity-overlay-site-selection/I use basic proximity & overlay tools in QGIS to narrow 899,214 low-probability land parcels into 1,329 potential winners.Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://alo.mn/time-is-money/https://alo.mn/time-is-money/The "time value of money" and how to use it to make wiser investment decisions.Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT