Tag: new hampshire

Interactive population graphic

Half of New Hampshire’s population lives in the yellow zone, and the other half lives in the purple area

Click here to view the interactive version of the graphic!

I could stare at maps for hours. I don’t think there is anything more elegant that conveys more information than a map. I’ve long had a fascination for geography and cartography.

This was originally inspired by Reddit’s r/peopleliveincities, which contains maps intended to show certain statistics, but in reality just show that those stats are associated with high population densities.

On a technical note, I used a very cool Python library called Streamlit to make the map interactive and host the widget. It’s amazing to me that in 2021 it’s possible to make a simple web app with less than 50 lines of code. This widget and graphic also heavily leverages a shapefile generated by NHGRANIT, New Hampshire’s GIS clearinghouse. In theory, maps like this could be generated with any state, but most states only publish data on a county-level. Kudos to NHGRANIT for publishing a shapefile that works well out of the box with Geopandas.

Winter in New England

This was my first video to feature a plane. The preview image shows the scene where my father and I were flying the family plane, which we refer to as “The Demon”, around the Bretton Woods side of Mount Washington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Mount Washington is most prominent mountain on the East Coast, even more topographically prominent than nearly all mountains in Colorado, including Pikes Peak.

As I’ve gotten more comfortable with my drone, I’ve gotten better at capturing scenes with the drone far away from where I’m standing with the controller. (With visual observers, of course, in case the FAA is reading my blog). The scene with the kite ski was filmed while I’ll sat comfortably in my porch. The lighthouse scene in Portsmouth, NH was filmed all the way across the harbor in New Castle at Fort Stark.

In addition to being a drone pilot, I’m also a private pilot, so I’ll be sure to feature more aviation content as time goes on. I’ll also go into more depth on the technical aspects of my drone in future posts.