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From Pixels to Plans

A blog by Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj covering a combination of Spatial Analysis, Data Science, and AI that is fuelling the Smart City revolution.

Latest Posts

• #30DayMapChallenge Day 2: Lines

  Posted on:November 1, 2026 |  at 10:00 PM

  Day 2 of the 2026 #30DayMapChallenge. Theme: Lines. The Greater Sydney rail network in MapAI from one prompt, then the same map for Camden, London with a one-line follow-up.

• #30DayMapChallenge Day 1: Points

  Posted on:October 31, 2026 |  at 10:00 PM

  Day 1 of the 2026 #30DayMapChallenge. Theme: Points. 6,245 cafes across 624 suburbs of Greater Sydney, mapped in MapAI from a single prompt using Overture Places.

• #30DayMapChallenge 2026: This year is all about MapAI

  Posted on:October 30, 2026 |  at 10:00 PM

  The #30DayMapChallenge starts tomorrow and this year I am doing all 30 maps with MapAI, the spatial analysis platform I have been building for the past two years. It is live, it is launched, and this November is my chance to show what it can do, one map a day.

• A big change and clean break into 2024

  Posted on:January 24, 2024 |  at 01:30 PM

  It has been 19 years since I started my first blog using 'My Opera' in 2005. Although lot of things have changed since, my blogging habits have stayed the same. I moved to WordPress in 2009, briefly tried other platforms, and eventually moved my WordPress site to my own server in 2018. This year, as a major change I am moving my blog platform to Astro. The content is going to be the same but will prioritise longer and more theoretical posts.