Working towards Cloud-Native Geospatial, through involvement in @GeoParquet, @planet, @STACSpec, @cogeotiff, @cloudnativegeo & @source_coop.
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I'm very pleased to share the full details on 'fiboa' - a data schema and ecosystem to improve the interoperability of agricultural field boundaries and related data. It's my favorite project to work on lately. Start with our intro post:
cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2024…
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QGIS' GeoParquet Downloader Plugin now supports OpenStreetMap's weekly Parquet feed tech.marksblogg.com/layercak…
Ignore the custom URL step in the above guide as OpenStreetMap now has its own tab in the plugin.
Thanks @opencholmes, @ianthetechie and everyone else working on this.
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This week we begin rolling out recordings from #CNG2025. First up: @opencholmes on "Towards a Global Spatial Data Ecosystem." As Chris states: "We have the tools & people to make a huge impact...as long as we do it together."
▶️ youtu.be/IA9ZvXOnPZ0
New videos dropping weekly!
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🌍 Meta’s basemaps are now powered by Overture!
@Meta has transitioned its global basemaps to #OvertureMaps’ open data, improving accuracy, validation, and industry collaboration.
Read the case study: hubs.la/Q03ddgG50
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Introducing the keynote speakers headlining the CNG Conference 2025, happening April 30 - May 2 at Snowbird, Utah
▪️ @opencholmes, VP of Product at @planet
▪️ Eli Holmes, Open Science Lead at @NOAA Fisheries
▪️ @Schneider_ly, Research Director at @IDC
🔗 2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org
Just published a post on new features in the GeoParquet Downloader QGIS Plug-in I've been working on, see cholmes.medium.com/new-featu…
The most exciting thing to me is that a majority of the new enhancements have come from outside contributors.
I think my favorite (pictured in the gif) is the ability to select multiple @OvertureMaps layers and then have the plugin download them all at once. I'm pretty confident it's now the easiest way to get a bunch of Overture data for your area of interest.
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I'm incredibly pumped that we'll be launching 'phase 2' of the TGE initiative that lead to Fields of The World (fieldsofthe.world) and fiboa (github.org/fiboa). And I'd like to invite you to join us! See tgengine.org/tge-innovation-… for more info...
I'm incredibly pumped that we'll be launching 'phase 2' of the TGE initiative that lead to Fields of The World (fieldsofthe.world) and fiboa (github.org/fiboa). And I'd like to invite you to join us! See tgengine.org/tge-innovation-… for more info...
I just published a blog post sharing some videos on how to make a QGIS plugin with AI coding tools: cholmes.medium.com/learn-how…
I've been having great fun with it, so wanted to help demystify the process for anyone curious & hopefully inspire more people to add cool stuff to QGIS!
Helping start Fiboa (github.com/fiboa) and Fields of The Worlds (fieldsofthe.world) as part of TGE's first Innovation Bridge is easily the thing I'm most proud of contributing to last year. Read this great blog post summarizing what happened:
tgengine.org/innovation-brid…
You, yes you, can help the Cloud Native Geospatial Movement!
Have you benefitted from Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF’s? SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs? Zarr, COPC or GeoParquet? Learn how to give back in my post
cholmes.medium.com/you-yes-y…
I finally found the time to write up my experience using AI-coding tools to create the QGIS plugin I made a couple months ago to make it easy to download Overture Maps Foundation, Source Cooperative and other GeoParquet data. Read it at: cholmes.medium.com/coding-qg…
and even more satisfying to contribute back to the open source ecosystems that enable it. I do believe that you'll find success as long as you've got a real problem you want to solve and you're willing to be a bit hard-headed and keep trying even if it doesn't work at first.
The tools are really quite magical, greatly shortening the learning curve.
And if you'd like a problem to work on feel free to contribute to my project at github.com/cholmes/qgis_plug… I had a new contributor for the 0.4.0 release, and I'm fully welcoming of AI-assisted contributors.