Geoparquet 2.0: Going Native GeoParquet 2.0 introduces native GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY support in Parquet and Iceberg, marking a major milestone in geospatial data integration and interoperability.
Coding QGIS Plug-ins with AI coding tools Want to build your own QGIS plugins and any other geospatial tools? Read this account of using AI tools to code a plugin for QGIS.
Using DuckDB’s Hilbert Function with GeoParquet DuckDB’s functionality has continued to expand, and as of version 1.1 it reads and writes GeoParquet natively, as long as you have the spatial extension installed.
Get Ready for the CNG Virtual Conference 2024 The CNG Virutal Conference is Wednesday, November 13. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to connect, learn, and contribute to the future of geospatial technology.
Introducing the Founding CNG Editorial Board We are excited to announce the founding CNG Editorial Board, a group of leaders in our community who have graciously volunteered to guide our work.
Join the CNG Membership Program We’re excited to announce the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) membership program. We have changed our name, but not our commitment to making geospatial data easier to access and use.
Introducing CNG We’re changing the name of the Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation to the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum and announcing a new approach to grow the community of people working to make geospatial data easier to access and use.
STAC 1.1.0 Released STAC 1.1.0 is now released. An overview of the changes in the new version.
Introduction to STAC GeoParquet Introducing STAC GeoParquet, a specification and library for storing and serving STAC metadata as GeoParquet.
Analysis-Ready Data in Practice from a Cloud-Native Perspective An overview of our current thinking on Analysis-Ready Data (ARD) based on work we’ve been doing with NASA, the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Systems Engineering Office, and others over the past year.
Introducing fiboa Announcing fiboa (Field Boundaries for Agriculture), a new project we’re collaborating on with the Taylor Geospatial Engine focused on improving interoperability of farm field boundary data and other associated agriculture data.
Coming Soon: GeoParquet 1.1 Some updates on the upcoming 1.1 release of the GeoParquet specification which will include a bounding box column and GeoArrow encoding.
Zarr Sprint Recap A summary of our Zarr sprint held at the LEAP NSF Science and Technology Center at Columbia University in New York City in February 2024.
Expanding the Cloud-Native Geospatial Community Explore diverse community applications of cloud-native geospatial data in our upcoming regionally-focused webinars. Join us on Dec 5 for insightful use cases from Brazil and on Dec 14 (US), Dec 15 (Pacific) for examples from the Pacific region.
Interview with Brandon Liu An interview on Protomaps, cloud-native innovation, and shaping tomorrow’s geospatial landscape.
The GeoParquet Ecosystem at 1.0.0 A compilation of GeoParquet-compatible libraries, tools, and data providers offering compelling datasets within the specification
Join STAC Sprint #8 The Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation, in partnership with the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog Project Steering Committee (STAC PSC), announces STAC Sprint #8, to be held in Philadelphia from September 26th to 28th.