Made a quick visualization showing the timeline of Development Permit applications in Calgary between 2004 and 2025. Interesting to see the drastic increase in Secondary Suite applications starting in 2019.
You can filter all Development Permit categories on the map: saadiqm.com/development-...
We took Canada’s Spatial Access Measures dataset (big, clunky CSVs) → turned it into a single GeoParquet file.
Add DuckDB-WASM + deck.gl & you get
- instant queries
- smooth maps
- no backend
Public data, but actually usable.
developmentseed.org/blog/2025-10...
@saadiqmohiuddin.bsky.social
What makes one street feel safer than another? To explore this, I used Place Pulse 2.0, a dataset of 1.1M crowd-sourced comparisons of street view images to train a model that ranks streets based on how safe they appear. Check out the blog post: saadiqm.com/2025/09/22/p...
Our friends at @developmentseed.org are always working on clever tooling that makes it possible to sustain an ambitious community-driven project like ours. Watch Hanbyul Jo (and @marcfarra.bsky.social in spirit) give a rundown at #StateOfTheMapUS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xdm...
🔥 New on NASA's VEDA platform: the Fire Event Explorer shows how wildfires evolved over time—where they spread, and how wind shaped them.
🛰 Based on authoritative NASA data.
🧭 Built for exploration, analysis, and storytelling.
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Want to learn more in person? I’ll be at the Calgary @calgaryclimatehub.ca Tree Party on May 31 to talk about the Calgary Tree Equity Tool. Come say hello and let’s talk trees and data.
🌐 www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/tree_party
I’ve also written a detailed walkthrough of how the tool was built, including data sources and analysis methods:
🔗 saadiqm.com/2025/05/28/b...
🌳 Calgary Tree Equity Tool – Updated!
I’ve updated the Calgary Tree Equity Tool (calgarytreeequity.ca) with a redesigned interface and new land surface temperature data to reflect heat island effects.
Thanks to @faustoperez.bsky.social from @developmentseed.org for your help with the UI redesign.
🤩 @pangeo.io hackathon kicking off at the @developmentseed.org office! Excited for some fun projects.
We’ve got 25 team members on @bsky.app now! 🥳
Just added @saadiqmohiuddin.bsky.social to the Pack. Saadiq is a technical project manager on the NASA VEDA project, loves urban forests and will be at #AGU24 next week talking about on-the-fly raster visualizations leveraging #STAC metadata standards.
