In which visualization helps explain how good indexing goes weird. The flat-Earthers may be on to something. GeoMesa, like many other data stores that index geographic data, uses space-filling curves to impose an order on two-dimensional geometries. It’s easy to … Read More
As described on their About page, “GeoHipster is a collaborative independent online publication on geotechnology and culture, with special focus on open source and open data.” It’s a great way to stay in touch with interesting new things in the … Read More
As described on its home page, “The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, … Read More
Well-known GeoMesa use cases often center around its ability to work with large, scalable column-oriented database managers such as Accumulo, HBase, and Google Cloud Bigtable. These systems are well-known for their ability to store very large amounts of data, and … Read More
In my previous post, I laid out a case for the significance of Big Spatial Data and my surprise that so little is published about it. Now I’ll formally introduce the GeoMesa Project, which seeks to address the challenges faced … Read More
Despite all the buzz that surrounds the term “big data,” we hear surprisingly little about “big spatial data.” Of the top ten results from an Incognito Google search for “Big Spatial Data,” only two results are from 2015 and only … Read More
See our press release announcing the offering of GeoMesa with the Boundless OpenGeo Suite: Accumulo Offering for Spatio-Temporal Capabilities with OpenGeo Suite Alexandria, VA October 27, 2013 — Boundless and CCRi announce the launch of a new platform for building … Read More