Writing a proper GitHub issue

NYC Planning Labs manages almost all of its work through GitHub. So it’s important that we write…

Using the new MVT function in PostGIS

We ❤️ vector tiles. They’re a key part of our modern open source spatial stack, and we’ve…

Understanding Our Users Through Analytics

Last week, shortly after Planning Labs’ first birthday, I was tasked with combing…

NYC Planning Labs is an extremely agile team. We work fast — quickly going from idea to prototype to functional software — and launch tools in a matter of weeks. Of course, being barely a year old, the team is still figuring out the details of its process. But continuously fine-tuning…

Last time I covered a lot of the basics for our ambitious map. We got an EmberJS app up and running, fetched some data, and put a map on the screen. Now let’s add a bit…