Modern GIS is changing fast. If you’ve been working with QGIS, ArcGIS, or any other desktop GIS tool, you’ve probably hit some limitations—datasets getting too big, processing times slowing down, and collaboration becoming a challenge. The good news? The cloud offers a way forward. But how do you make that transition? How do you go […]
Getting started with spatial SQL will always require one key step where many hit a roadblock – importing data into your spatial database. In a traditional GIS setting, this is as simple as dragging or dropping a file or simply clicking to load it. For databases and data warehouses, this requires a few more steps […]
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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 […]
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 […]
