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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…
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OSGeo at FOSDEM 2021 (Online) - Call for Participation for the geospatial devroom
FOSDEM is the largest free and open source developers meeting in Europe, with 8000+ participants. It normally takes place in Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2021 will be Online. As in the last year we wil…
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pycsw 2.6.0 released
This release brings various enhancements to OpenSearch temporal support, cloud enhancements, and 12 factor support. This release also drops all Python 2 support given the Python 2 end of life which …
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pycsw 2.6.0 released
The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 2.6.0. This release brings various enhancements to OpenSearch temporal support, cloud enhancements, and 12 factor support. This release also drops all P…
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How to Create Maps from Snowflake using CARTO & SQL
Simpler data workflows for Snowflake users