Analyzing The Overture Maps Places Dataset Using SedonaDB, Wherobots Cloud, & GeoParquet

Introduction Overture Maps, supported by the Overture Maps Foundation (OMF), offers a comprehensive geospatial data set, now in GeoParquet format, categorized into themes like places of interest, buildings, transportation networks, and administrative boundaries. GeoParquet, a geospatially optimized variant of the standard Parquet format, enhances the management of spatial data, making it particularly well-suited for geospatial […]

The Biggest Apache Sedona Release Ever, Wherobots Cloud Launch, Building Maps With Felt & Self Service Geospatial Analytics – This Month In Wherobots

Welcome to This Month In Wherobots where we highlight the latest goings on from the Wherobots & Apache Sedona community. In this edition we’re taking a look at the largest release ever in the history of Apache Sedona, the latest SedonaDB and Wherobots Cloud launch, self-service geospatial analytics, building maps with Felt, and a look […]

Creating Collaborative Web Maps With The Felt API And Wherobots Cloud

An important requirement for data infrastructure tools like SedonaDB and Wherobots Cloud are that they integrate well with the technology ecosystems around them. In the world of spatial databases this includes geospatial visualization tooling. Being able to create maps with data from SedonaDB is an important usecase for Wherobots Cloud so in this blog post […]

SedonaDB: The Cloud-native Spatial Analytics Database Platform

According to Gartner, 97% of data collected at the enterprise sits on the shelves without being put into use. That is a shockingly big number, especially given that the data industry got their hopes up a few years back when the Economist published their article “The most valuable resource is no longer oil, it’s data”. […]

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. […]

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…