Spatial SQL Cookbook: Common GIS Analyses in Spatial SQL

One of the biggest challenges, at least for me, when getting started with spatial SQL is having a quick and easy reference to transfer your current GIS workflows into SQL. There are many amazing resources out there to expand this knowledge, but this guide is meant to be a really simple cookbook to start to […]

Top Modern GIS Skils for GIS Analysts in 2022

GIS Analysts serve the incredibly important purpose of providing detailed analysis and flexible results working with a wide range of data and tools. Not only do GIS Analysts work with many different stakeholder groups, but they also have to maintain a flexible workflow and use a wide range of data, delivering easy to use and […]

PostGIS and Geopandas

PostGIS and GeoPandas in Jupyter in 4 minutes

Take advantage of the speed of PostGIS along with the flexibility of Geopandas and Python in 4 minutes! Take a look at the video and follow along with these steps! The Spatial SQL Book – Available now! Check out my new book on Spatial SQL with 500+ pages to help you go from SQL novice […]

What is Modern GIS?

The GIS we use and practice today is fundamentally different from the GIS we used previously. In the past, I have written about the need to define geospatial as a practice, and yet again I think it is time to define another term in our space. Modern GIS is something that is starting to take […]

What is spatial SQL?

What is spatial SQL?

Spatial SQL is not just a query language. It is becoming far more than that and its uses are expanding beyond just a database for spatial data. It allows for faster spatial analysis, supports spatial applications, enables spatial data science and machine learning, and far more. Because of these reasons I wanted to share a […]