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Happy Valentine's Day ♥ ♥ from Fat Pencil Studio!
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Finding the Sweet Spot

Last fall, we worked on a mapping project that gave me an opportunity to try out a product we’d never used before: Carto Builder. The application, which is accessible through a browser, processes, analyzes, and visualizes geo-located data.

We didn’t end up using Carto Builder for the project we were working on, but I became quickly enamored with its capabilities. So I found a use for it in my private life. I’m planning to move in the next four months and I’m already chomping at the bit to begin apartment hunting. I knew Builder would help scratch that itch in the intervening months…whether it’ll make the hunt more efficient, who’s to say!

To create my apartment hunting map, I...

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Brain Candy

Two jaw-dropping visual stories about sports: astounding feats at the Winter Olympics, and the incomparable Roger Federer (be still my beating heart).

We love SketchUp, but here's a guy who REALLY loves SketchUp.

National Geographic writes a love letter to a lost Maya megalopolis. (Lidar is so cool!)

I'm considering a LTR with Bogotá based on this fact alone: "Another initiative in a small area of the city was to replace corrupt traffic police officers with mime artists."

Forget to get a valentine for the architect/architecture lover in your life? Look no further. (Hope you like puns!)

Bummer news for sweethearts in Seattle.

It's not spring yet, so here's a sub-zero phenomenon to melt your mind.

It's also Oregon's 159th birthday today! Check it out.



 
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