Web application for developing ecologically sustainable visions of New York City via “ecosystem painting” tools (a unique photoshop-like interface for loading, saving, and editing geographically correct 10m raster cells on the browser canvas) and providing comparative metrics of carbon, water, biodiversity, and population with reference to pre-city (Mannahatta/Welikia) ecology and current landcover. System includes backend database interface for editing ~6000 parameter values used in calculating Visionmaker ecological performance metrics, linked to original sources in Zotero. https://visionmaker.us/nyc/
Things I do/did: System architecture design, project management, database development and user interfaces, application development
Tools/tech involved: PostgreSQL/PostGIS including raster manipulation, Django, Python, Redis, Apache, numpy, ArcGIS, QGIS, jQuery/lodash/Datatables, ESRI js API, PHP, MySQL, integration with Perl-based FileChucker, Zotero