The Angular Material Library is a collection of Material Design components which integrates with Angular, a typescript based, open-source web development framework. The UI elements that the library provides are:
Applying functions using moving windows are a common feature of geospatial data analysis and often exist “under the hood” of GIS software. If you’ve ever calculated a slope or aspect grid from a raster elevation datas...
I recently got stuck trying to plot multiple figures in parallel with Matplotlib. It took five hours to find a two-line fix to make it work. Afterwards I spent even more hours learning about multiprocessing in order t...
Python 2 vs 3 mismatches have been causing problems in our CentOS 7 server adminstration. We use Ansible for automatic configuration and continuous integration deployments. A few of our long-used jobs recently broke b...
There are known challenges when publishing technical documentation / reports when using PDF or other desktop office formats which is why we endeavor at the BGS to publish our documentation using HTML
A number of BGS projects are using the open source Parse Server platform. Previously an MBaaS (mobile backend as a service) purchased by Facebook in 2013, Parse was closed in 2017 and subsequently open-sourced under ...
Some background, a development team within the BGS Informatics department were tasked with creating an API to expose sensor data (in this case sensor data from instrumentation placed within boreholes). The API to be p...
Sometimes people wonder what is behind the tables, graphs and models statisticians made. Are we playing tricks? Well, we cannot deny that we use some mathematical magic occasionally, but for most the time, it is about...
This is part 4 in a blog series about our approach to creating a shared design system for myHAZ-VCT PLATFORM.
This is part 3 in a blog series about our approach to creating a shared design system for myHAZ-VCT PLATFORM.
This is part 2 in a blog series about our approach to creating a shared design system for myHAZ-VCT PLATFORM.
This is part 1 in a blog series about our approach to creating a shared design system for myHAZ-VCT PLATFORM.
Single page applications (SPAs), are a modern way to write full web based experiences for audiences. Dev ops, frontend and backend teams can all work in unison to deliver a common vision without compromising design or...
We recently released our internally-developed etlhelper tool under an open source licence. This post is a reflection on the experience, explaining what we did and why and with advice for future projects. The take-home...