Apache Sedona is a distributed spatial analytics platform that provides tools for working with geospatial data in a distributed computing environment. It is an open-source project of the Apache Software Foundation. Apache Sedona provides APIs and libraries for working with geospatial data in the Scala, Java, Python and SQL programming…

Uber H3 is a technique to model and index and geospatial data. H3 grids the earth surface by casting it on a icosahedron, and tiles it by hexagons + pentagons. Apache Sedona is a spatial computing engine that enables developers to easily process spatial data at any scale within modern…

Today’ s technology allows hundreds of millions of users to frequently use their mobile devices to access their healthcare information and bank accounts, interact with friends, buy stuff online, search interesting places to visit on-the-go, ask for driving directions, and more. In consequence, everything we do leaves breadcrumbs of spatial…

The spatial data deluge — In the past decade, the volume of available geospatial data increased tremendously. Such data includes but not limited to: weather maps, socio-economic data, and geo-tagged social media. For example, spacecrafts from NASA keep monitoring the status of the earth, including land temperature, atmosphere humidity. As of today, NASA has released…