2.7 Billion Buildings

I look at OpenBuildingMap's global building dataset.

Australian Coastline Imagery

I look at the DEA's 2.6 TB Australian Coastline satellite imagery dataset.

Canada's 14M Buildings

I look at Statistics Canada's 14M-building Open Database of Buildings (ODB) dataset.

Analysis-Ready OpenStreetMap

I look at the Layercake's weekly Parquet-formatted OpenStreetMap files.

Canada's 13M Buildings

I look at Public Safety Canada's 13M-building Canada Structures dataset.

The World's 2.75B Buildings

I look at TUM's GlobalBuildingAtlas Dataset.

Planet Labs' Hyperspectral Imagery

I look at Planet Labs' 426-band, open hyperspectral satellite imagery feed.

Overture Maps in ArcGIS Pro

I review an add-in that imports Overture Maps datasets into Esri's ArcGIS Pro.

Esri's ArcGIS Pro 3.5

I review Esri's latest release of their flagship desktop GIS offering.

Canada's 15.8M Addresses

I use Statistics Canada's National Address Register to produce centroids of Canada's major settlements.

Wyvern's Open Satellite Feed

I review Wyvern's 130 GBs of open satellite imagery.

Satellogic's Open Satellite Feed

I review Satellogic's 10 TBs of open satellite imagery.

Overture Maps' Refreshed Global Geospatial Datasets

I look at Overture's latest open and global geospatial dataset update.

Smaller Satellite Images

I look at a newer compression technique for satellite imagery.

Foursquare's 104M Points of Interest

I look at Foursqaure's Open and Global Points of Interest (POI) Dataset.

OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles

I look at OpenStreetMap's new sharp, clear and customisable vector tiles.

131M American Buildings

I look at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's AI-generated US Building Dataset.

Land Cover from Satellite Imagery

I look over Overture's 84 GB Land Cover dataset.

Japan's Building Footprints

I look at "Flateau", a Parquet-based Japanese Building Footprint Dataset.

AI on Street View

I look at the results of several models running inference on 10M images taken in cities across the globe.

Capella's Open Satellite Feed

I explore Capella's freely available satellite imagery.

Revisiting Overture's Global Geospatial Datasets

I look over some of the changes made to Overture's datasets over the past six months.

Maxar's HD Global Imagery Basemap

I explore satellite imagery of eleven cities on Maxar's 30cm Global Basemap.

Umbra's Open Satellite Feed

I explore Umbra's freely available satellite imagery.

Tokyo Walking Tour Guide

I build a walking tour guide using DuckDB and QGIS.

Extracting OSM Features

I break up an OSM file into 1,087 themed GeoPackage files.

Mapping Estonia with LiDAR

I explore the Estonian Land Board's LiDAR scans dataset.

Natural Earth's Global Geospatial Datasets

I explore Natural Earth's freely available global geospatial datasets.

Maxar's Open Satellite Feed

I explore 1 TB of Maxar's freely available satellite imagery.

Overture's Global Geospatial Datasets

I explore Overture's three global and free-to-use mapping dataset releases.

A Review of Esri's Imagery in Action MOOC

A review of their six-week spatial imagery course.

A Review of Esri's Spatial Data Science MOOC

A review of their six-week course which focuses on their ArcGIS Pro offering.

Enhancing ClickHouse's Geospatial Support

I review Clickgis, a Rust-based extension that adds WKB and GeoJSON support to ClickHouse.

Geospatial Clustering with Uber's H3 in DuckDB & QGIS

I revisit Uber's H3 with a more concise method for producing geospatial clusters.

DuckDB's Spatial Extension

DuckDB can now open 50+ GIS file formats. I use it to help examine the Bing Maps team's AI road detection project.

Geospatial DuckDB

I walk through basic geospatial workflows in DuckDB.

Faster PostgreSQL To BigQuery Transfers

I compare shipping data via CSV and Parquet from PostgreSQL to BigQuery.

Awesome Isochrones

I show how you can create beautiful isochrone maps using Valhalla and QGIS.

Pretty Maps in Python

I show how you can create beautiful maps in Python.

Making Heatmaps

I walk through a GIS toolchain for creating heatmaps.

Deploying 5G Around Trees

I explain how Open5G digs through 3.5 trillion records produced by a deep learning algorithm trained on a massive cluster in Switzerland that was fed imagery of the entire earth from two satellites to decide how to roll out 5G in California.

The Streets of Monaco

I walk through a GIS toolchain for visualising the streets of Monaco and its Formula 1 circuit.

Faster Geospatial Enrichment

I compare latitude and longitude to h3 binning times between PostgreSQL, BigQuery and ClickHouse.

Linting UK Postcodes

Parsing and linting UK postcodes is ripe with edge cases.