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PostGIS 3.1.0
The PostGIS Team is pleased to release the release of PostGIS 3.1.0! This version exposes the new features of GEOS 3.9 as well as numerous core performance enhancements for spatial joins, large objec…
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Visualize Waze Traffic Data using Google BigQuery & CARTO
Over 140 million monthly active drivers use Waze every day to save time and navigate roads and freeways more easily. Waze users (aka Wazers) can log accidents, potholes, sl...
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Waiting for PostGIS 3.1: Performance
This post originally appeared on the Crunchy Data blog. Open source developers sometimes have a hard time figuring out what feature to focus on, in order to generate the maximum value for end users…
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Waiting for PostGIS 3.1: Grid Generators
This post originally appeared on the Crunchy Data blog. Summarizing data against a fixed grid is a common way of preparing data for analysis. Fixed grids have some advantages over natural and admin…
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Waiting for PostGIS 3.1: GEOS 3.9
This post originally appeared on the Crunchy Data blog. While we talk about “PostGIS” like it’s one thing, it’s actually the collection of a number of specialized geospatial libraries, along with a…
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OSGeo Establishes Category A Liaison with ISO/TC 211
In support of OSGeo’s continued commitment to standards and interoperability, OSGeo and ISO/TC 211 have established a Category A liaison, effective 31 July 2020. The liaison will enable OSGeo to make …
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Spatial data exploration with linked plots
In the previous post, we explored how hvPlot and Datashader can help us to visualize large CSVs with point data in interactive map plots. Of course, the spatial distribution of points usually only sho…
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Simple, but not too simple
Jimee, Jackie, Tom & Asha, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons A focus of mine over the last few years has been how new users for software are enabl…
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My new rig
This past week, I made the final decision to retire my old PC used for gaming and dev on my various open source projects and start shopping out for a new PC.The main reason for the decision was my dai…
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Mapbox and Morrison
Yesterday, Mapbox announced that they were moving their Mapbox GL JS library from a standard BSD license to a new very much non-open source license. Joe Morrison said the news “shook” him (and also t…
