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9 Mins Read 5 Sep 2023

Spatial Data, GeoParquet, and Apache Sedona

Apache Parquet is a modern columnar data file format optimized for analytical workload. It is widely adopted in the big data ecosystem. Spatial scientists may also want to use parquet to store spatial data, especially when analyzing large scale datasets on Spark or cloud data warehouses. Problems arise when storing spatial data to parquet files. […]

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10 Mins Read 20 Aug 2023

Harnessing Overture Maps Data: Apache Sedona’s Journey from Parquet to GeoParquet

The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF) has recently released its first open-source Parquet dataset…

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9 Mins Read 5 Jul 2023

Announcing Apache Sedona 1.4 – A Giant Leap in Geospatial Processing

Hello Apache Sedona community, We’re exhilarated to share the launch of Apache Sedona 1.4 (https://sedona.apache.org/1.4.1/), encompassing both 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 versions, signifying a transformative stage in geospatial analytics. These successive versions introduce an array of striking new features, major enhancements, and indispensable bug fixes. Top-Notch Highlights Here are the standout features spanning across these two […]

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3 Mins Read 13 Jun 2023

Wherobots raises $5.5 Million in seed round to build the data platform for spatial analytics & AI

We are happy to announce that we raised $5.5 Million in seed round led by Clear Ventures and Wing VC. Wherobots Inc. was founded by Mo Sarwat and Jia Yu (the original creators of Open Source Software Apache Sedona) in June 2022 to enable every organization to drive value from data via space and time. […]

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