Category: Geography
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Still life
A moment of peace and joy. Finishing up a good book. Appreciating the soft light. A pile of grapes. Brewing coffee. A hug. Mesmerized by ripples. Mesmerized by steam. One command to strip audio and metadata and resize: Last night we kayaked on Tomales Bay with a guided tour with Blue Waters Kayaking. The recent…
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Santa Clara precincts, an appreciation
Thanks to a quick, gracious reply from the GIS Mapping team at County of Santa Clara – Registrar of Voters, I have a shapefile with the precincts for Santa Clara County. You can ask for it too. I’m struck by the beauty of it: A combination of artificial and natural, driven by people’s choices —…
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California cities from CDTFA
At least based on the dates listed on https://lab.data.ca.gov/dataset/california-city-boundaries-and-identifiers — still says “03/24/25” — I’m guessing the city boundaries haven’t been updated yet. For a current project, I want the best boundaries available so let’s work directly with the source pointed out by the CIO, GIS: https://gis.data.ca.gov/datasets/CDTFA::city-and-county-boundary-line-changes/explore?layer=0&location=33.924386%2C-118.008294%2C11.67. > library(sf)> d <- read_sf(“~/Downloads/City_and_County_Boundary_Line_Changes_217120214122415134.gpkg”) It turns out…