2024-09-07 –, Maasai Mara
Cloud-native approaches and formats are increasingly becoming the defaults for geospatial data analysis, visualisation and distribution. Standards like STAC and formats like GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf and PMTiles are being adopted to meet high volume and performance needs. OpenStreetMap can take advantage of these new approaches to increase adoption, interoperability and solve analysis and visualisation problems that were previously complex. This talk will discuss a few ways to bring cloud-native formats to OSM use-cases and present lessons on building new applications that take advantage of these improvements. Particularly, we will discuss how to use cloud-native approaches to improve OSM validation and change visualization efforts.
OpenStreetMap data is core to projects used by millions of users worldwide. With the increase in volume of data, developers are turning to cloud-native approaches to efficiently manage geospatial operations and visualizations. The primary OSM data distribution are currently Shapefiles, GeoJSONs, Raster and Vector tiles, and OSM specific formats like osm and osc.
What are the possibilities of other formats like GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf and GeoArrow? How can these formats improve existing workflows in OSM and allow users new ways to work with OSM data? How can we enable interoperability with other datasets and tool ecosystems? These are some of the questions we will address in this talk.
cloud-native, performance, analyssis, visualization
Affiliation:Development Seed
Sajjad is a engineering and strategy leader at Development Seed. He builds tools to improve how Development Seed and our partners work with geographic data. He contributes to our strategy for working with teams like HOT and with OpenStreetMap. Sajjad cares deeply about the impact open tools and data have on governance and development.
Previously Sajjad helped build Mapbox’s data team and led products for mapping and validation. Sajjad has experience building platforms for natural resources monitoring and data infrastructure for large scale accountability initiatives.
Wille Marcel is a Map Data Engineer at Development Seed. He focuses on building tools to collect, manage, distribute, and analyze map data. He has extensive experience in the geospatial industry, from mapping and data analysis to building APIs and web applications, and is also the creator of OSMCha, one of the main OpenStreetMap validation tools.