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10 Mins Read 11 Jun 2024

🌶 Comparing taco chains :: a consumer retail cannibalization study with isochrones

Authors Ilya Marchenko Using Wherobots for a Retail Cannibalization Study Comparing Two Leading Taco Chains In this post, we explore how to implement a workflow from the commercial real estate (CRE) space using Wherobots Cloud. This workflow is commonly known as a cannibalization study, and we will be using WherobotsDB, POI data from OvertureMaps, the […]

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6 Mins Read 6 Jun 2024

New Wherobots Cloud Features, How Overture Maps Uses Apache Sedona, Aircraft Data, & Spatial Lakehouses

Welcome to This Month In Wherobots the monthly developer newsletter for the Wherobots & Apache Sedona community! In this edition we have a look at the latest Wherobots Cloud release, how the Overture Maps Foundation uses Apache Sedona to generate their data releases, processing a billion aircraft observations, building spatial data lakehouses with Iceberg Havasu, […]

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10 Mins Read 5 Jun 2024

Introducing WherobotsAI for planetary inference, and capabilities that modernize spatial intelligence at scale

Editor’s note: Raster inference is now part of RasterFlow, the Wherobots engine for running computer vision models on satellite and aerial imagery. UPDATE: Raster inference is included in Wherobots RasterFlow. See Wherobots Get Started with RasterFlow – Wherobots for the most up-to-date workflows. We are excited to announce a preview of WherobotsAI, our new suite […]

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6 Mins Read 5 Jun 2024

The Spatial SQL API brings the performance of WherobotsDB to your favorite data applications

Since its launch last fall, Wherobots has raised the bar for cloud-native geospatial data analytics, offering the first and only platform for working with vector and raster geospatial data together at a planetary scale. Wherobots delivers a significant breadth of geospatial analytics capabilities, built around a cloud-native data lakehouse architecture and query engine that delivers […]

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15 Mins Read 16 May 2024

Processing A Billion Aircraft Observations And Combining With Weather Data Using Apache Sedona On Wherobots Cloud

In this post we take a look at combining aircraft flight data with weather data to identify potentially impacted flights using public ADS-B data and weather data from NOAA. Along the way we introduce the types of spatial queries available with WherobotsDB including spatial range queries, spatial kNN, and spatial joins using Spatial SQL, geospatial […]

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8 Mins Read 16 Apr 2024

Making Overture Maps Data More Efficient With GeoParquet And Apache Sedona

The latest release of Overture Maps data is now published in GeoParquet format, allowing for more efficient spatial operations when selecting subsets of the dataset and enabling interoperability with a growing ecosystem of data tooling that supports the cloud-native GeoParquet format. In this post we explore some of the motivations and advantages of publishing the […]

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