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 […]

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...

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 […]