Chris Holmes
@opencholmes
Working towards Cloud-Native Geospatial, through involvement in @GeoParquet, @planet, @STACSpec, @cogeotiff, @cloudnativegeo & @source_coop.
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https://cholmes.medium.com/ 14-05-2013 13:27:37
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The GeoParquet 1.1 revision is out, adding support for spatial partitioning and native GeoArrow geometries Both have potential to massively speed up working with very large geospatial datasets. Next step is ensuring the ecosystem works with this version github.com/opengeospatial…
Hannes Mühleisen's github.com/duckdb/duckdb/… on adding Brotli compression to the parquet extension
New blog post by Matthias Mohr explores a practical solution for analysis-ready data: A SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog-based approach for CEOS-ARD. Read it now and share your thoughts! cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2024/06/a…
The initial goal of GeoParquet might have been modest. Its ultimate goal is a future where #geospatial data is integrated across the data landscape. Read Chris Holmes & Javier de la Torre's blog post to learn more about breaking the 'GIS' data silo. cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2024/07/e…
Exciting to see Overture Maps Foundation leveraging Protomaps PMTiles for fast map visualization & GeoParquet for analysis-ready data downloads - all client-side 🤯! A great example of open-source tech empowering geospatial exploration. #OpenData #Geospatial
The recording of the talk on DuckDB's spatial library, presented by its author katrina L bear at GeoPythonConf 2024 is now available. DuckDB Spatial: Supercharged Geospatial SQL youtube.com/watch?v=hoyQnP…
Releasing arro3: a new Python implementation of ApacheArrow, built on the Rust Language Arrow crate. - much lighter than pyarrow - interoperable with Arrow libs like pyarrow, polars - streaming IO for Parquet, CSV, JSON, IPC - pyodide support - type hinting github.com/kylebarron/arr…
Matt Berg Chris Holmes Kyle Barron @[email protected] The @[email protected] project just merged in GeoParquet support, here: github.com/geopython/pyge…
Introducing STAC GeoParquet: A specification and library for storing and serving SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog metadata as GeoParquet, which makes it easier to store, transmit & analyze large collections of STAC items. ✍️🏻Tom Augspurger Kyle Barron @[email protected] Chris Holmes 🔗cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2024/08/i…