Every map tells a story. The thin curved lines that trace the shape of mountains, valleys, and ridgelines aren’t just cartographic decoration — they’re data. Dense contours mean steep terrain; widely spaced ones mean gradual slopes. Read a topo map well enough and you can feel the land before you ever set foot on it.
That same instinct — turning raw data into something you can feel and act on — is what this blog is about.
What to Expect
Contour Lines will cover the intersection of outdoor recreation and data:
- Analysis of trail data, elevation profiles, and terrain modeling
- GPS track processing and visualization
- Environmental data: weather patterns, snowpack, wildfire risk
- Remote sensing, satellite imagery, and GIS workflows
- The tools and code that make it all possible
Posts will be technical in nature. Expect code, equations where they’re warranted, and a healthy respect for both the outdoors and the data that describes it.
Let’s get started.