(This post is also available at https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2023/08/performance-explorations-of-geoparquet-and-duckdb/) As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently put out my first open source Python project. I wouldn’t say I’m super proud of it, at least not yet, as it’s far from what I imagine it could be. It’s also kind of…

I’m excited to share that the core GeoParquet team has agreed that the specification is ready for 1.0.0 release. We just cut the first ‘release candidate,’ which means that we do not anticipate any more changes to the standard. However, we we want to give one last chance for everyone…

I’m pretty sure it’s been at least a couple years since I’ve written any blog post that’s not some sort of release or ecosystem update on STAC or GeoParquet, and I’d like to try to get back into writing more. …

I’m pleased to share that GeoParquet, a new geospatial format for vector data, just had its first ‘beta’ release. This is an exciting milestone, signifying that the core contributors believe that we’re almost ready for a stable 1.0.0 release. The next step is to solicit diverse implementations and feedback, to…

In April over 70 speakers and 800 participants came together for the incredible Cloud-Native Geospatial Outreach Event. Our goal for the event was to highlight just how far the movement around COG, STAC, Zarr & COPC has come, and to accelerate its path towards becoming the way to make geospatial…

I am very pleased to announce the schedule for the Cloud-Native Geospatial Outreach Event that I’m organizing with the Open Geospatial Consortium next week (April 19th and 20th). We’ll have over 70 5-minute lightning talks, along with 6 in-depth tutorials, from an incredible set of speakers. The event will be…

April 19th and 20th brings together the COG, STAC, Zarr & COPC communities to share experiences and welcome new users. — I’m pleased to announce that we have just opened registration for the Cloud-Native Geospatial Outreach Event we’re putting on with the OGC on April 19th and 20th. You can read more background in my previous post and in the recap from the first event. The core idea is to highlight…

Announcing three open requests for proposals for SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) projects — In my previous post, I shared that we’ll be funding a number of different STAC initiatives. One of our goals with the STAC ecosystem funding is to grow the number of contributors working on STAC. To that end, we have three completely open requests for proposals that are designed to…

In December I wrote a couple of blog posts to summarize my time as OGC’s first ‘visiting fellow’, writing up a vision for Cloud-Native Geospatial and the role of OGC in it, along with a post on the practical work to be done to get to a great cloud-native geo…