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ISO Innovative Analytics found that zip codes, particularly in dense urban areas, are insufficient for identifying your car insurance premium through some pretty awesome spatial analysis. They came up with a list of risk factors, with the biggest risk factor being living within a mile of a restaurant, followed closely by living near a grocery store. This research won’t affect...
We listened to the RadRails podcast today to see if there were any tricks that we should be using to harness the full power of RadRails. Instead we learned that there are a lot of bugfixes in the current release and that something in Ubuntu Linux (which I develop on) is broken and the developers “have no idea why.” We...
We’re looking for a summer intern to help us create beautiful real estate-related maps of the Seattle area that will accompany the re-launch of ShackPrices.com. Candidates should have experience with spatial analysis and map production in ArcGIS. Responsibilities include: Creating a ShackPrices map template to automate map production Gathering spatial datasets from multiple data sources Spatial analysis combining public and...
Dustin (of Rain City Guide) and I were interviewed by Stuart Maxwell of Seattle Real Estate Talk. Observations: I am still not comfortable hearing my own voice played back to me. Also, I mistakenly downplayed the need for agents or at least I didn’t emphasize the value of a good agent. You can get all the information you want from...
You know when you go to Google Maps and the little boxes start filling in one at a time? Charlie Savage estimates there are over a trillion of those little boxes. Map nerds might enjoy his insight into the internal workings of Google maps.