Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

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terrainr makes it easy to retrieve elevation and base map image tiles for areas of interest within the United States from the National Map family of APIs, and then process that data into larger, ...