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Expanding the Cloud-Native Geospatial Community
Expanding the Cloud-Native Geospatial Community
Join the CNG webinars on Dec 5 for insightful use cases from Brazil and on Dec 14 (US), Dec 15 (Pacific) for examples from the Pacific.
Radiant Earth
Nov 22
The Admin-partitioned GeoParquet Distribution
The Admin-partitioned GeoParquet Distribution
Down the rabbit hole in a quest to distribute geospatial data that’s accessible in ‘traditional’ workflows & enables cloud-native querying.
Chris Holmes
Oct 26
Interview with Brandon Liu
Interview with Brandon Liu
Brandon Liu — a technologist working at the vanguard of mapping, global network infrastructure, and vector graphics — has made an outsized…
Radiant Earth
Nov 15
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Introducing the Cloud-Optimized Geospatial Formats Guide
Introducing the Cloud-Optimized Geospatial Formats Guide
TL;DR: We’re excited to introduce the Cloud-Optimized Geospatial Formats Guide to help you navigate the ever-expanding universe of…
Radiant Earth
Oct 23
2023 STAC Sprint Recap
2023 STAC Sprint Recap
By Michelle Roby, Radiant Earth Developer Advocate
Radiant Earth
Oct 20
Where is COG for Vector?
Where is COG for Vector?
By Brandon Liu, Radiant Earth Technical Fellow
Radiant Earth
Oct 16
What is Source Cooperative?
What is Source Cooperative?
By Jed Sundwall, Executive Director of Radiant Earth
Radiant Earth
Oct 6
The GeoParquet Ecosystem at 1.0.0
The GeoParquet Ecosystem at 1.0.0
A tour of the libraries, tools and data sets in the GeoParquet ecosystem in the first month after 1.0.0 release.
Chris Holmes
Oct 4
Introducing the Ultimate Cloud-Native Building Footprints Dataset
Introducing the Ultimate Cloud-Native Building Footprints Dataset
This dataset merges Google’s V3 Open Buildings and Microsoft’s latest Building Footprints, making it the most complete openly available…
Radiant Earth
Sep 27
Cloud-Native Geospatial If You Don’t Speak Snake
Cloud-Native Geospatial If You Don’t Speak Snake
By Mike Mahoney, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Community Fellow
Radiant Earth
Sep 20
GeoParquet 1.1.0 Released
GeoParquet 1.1.0 Released
By Chris Holmes, Product Architect at Planet, Board Member at Open Geospatial Consortium, and Technical Fellow at Radiant Earth
Radiant Earth
Sep 18
DuckDB: The indispensable geospatial tool you didn’t know you were missing
DuckDB: The indispensable geospatial tool you didn’t know you were missing
A deep dive into the features that make me love DuckDB, and its potential for the geospatial world.
Chris Holmes
Sep 11
How Postholer Went Serverless Using Cloud-Native Geospatial Data
How Postholer Went Serverless Using Cloud-Native Geospatial Data
Meet Scott Parks, a trailblazer in the world of map development who is transforming hiking experiences through geospatial data. As the…
Radiant Earth
Sep 7
Performance Explorations of GeoParquet (and DuckDB)
Performance Explorations of GeoParquet (and DuckDB)
The results of several experiments transforming CSV files to different output formats, using different processing engines.
Chris Holmes
Aug 14
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