Cloud-native GIS – what is the actual definition?

Lately, I have been discussing the concept of modern GIS, and while it doesn’t require the cloud to run (in fact a core principle is that it can be run locally or in the cloud) it does allow you to easily move to the cloud when ready. With that said not all things in the […]

GeoParquet will be the most important tool in modern GIS in 2022

Yes, (another) file format is the most important new development tool for the modern GIS stack in 2022. There is a ton of hype around tools, processes, and methods for making geospatial analysis faster and at scale, but what if the data (in this case vector data) was better formatted for different query performance both […]

Top Modern GIS Skills for Spatial Data Science in 2022

Spatial data science has been one of the fastest-growing career paths in modern GIS in the past few years. The combination of the boom in the data science path, proliferation and popularity of Python, and demand for more flexible/technical roles in data science and analytics have spilled over into modern GIS. Yet spatial data science […]

SQL Basics for Spatial SQL: Importing Data to PostGIS

If you are looking for help loading a variety of geospatial data into PostGIS, then you have landed in the right place. This is a guide for my video below with further tutorials and guides. Special shout out to the team at Crunchy Data for their fantastic post on the topic. The Spatial SQL Book […]

SQL Basics for Spatial SQL: Basic Query Structure

This post serves as the guide for the first video in the Learn Spatial SQL series, focusing on SQL Basics for Spatial SQL, specifically Basic Query Structure: SELECT SELECT provides the basic query structure to return data from a table. This is the most foundational query structure in SQL when returning data from a table. […]