In the world of spatial data, building pipelines often feels like duct-taping together cron jobs, brittle scripts, and whatever cloud service happens to be in reach. Whether you’re transforming geospatial imagery, generating features for machine learning, or managing time-sensitive datasets like weather and river gauges chances are, your pipelines could use an upgrade. In the […]
Having the right formats is one thing. Getting your data into those formats reliably, at scale, and on schedule is another thing entirely. You can read all you want about GeoParquet and Zarr and COG, but if you can’t create a repeatable process to convert your legacy shapefiles to GeoParquet or your NetCDF files to […]
It started the way most online debates do: with a LinkedIn post and a strong opinion. I’d shared a graphic about modern GIS tools, highlighting open-source workflows and cloud-based options I believe help push the industry forward. Kyle Satterfield, GISP, had a different take. He took my graphic, dropped it into ChatGPT, and asked it […]
Storage is the foundation, but formats are what make cloud-native geospatial actually work. You can put any file in cloud storage. A shapefile, a GeoTIFF, a KML file, whatever. But just because it’s in the cloud doesn’t mean it’s cloud-native. And there’s a big difference between the two. Cloud-native formats are designed from the ground […]
TOP OF THE STACK Recently I have talked about Airflow, and I have talked about Agentic AI, but not the two together. Well with the release of the Airflow AI SDK from Astronomer you can now do both, together. Check out this video from The Data Guy (aka George Yates) about this functionality. Take a look and let me know […]
