Sparkgeo & N51
Sparkgeo is very excited to be co-hosting N51 in Banff this year. Come and let the scenery take your breath away, while N51 stimulates your geospatial ideas.
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FOSS4G UK 2022 – Sparkgeo represent at key open-source conference
The UK “free and open-source software for geo” (FOSS4G) community came together on November 17th to celebrate PostGIS Day.
How to use SVG Filters on Web Maps
Here at Sparkgeo, while we often prefer to provide answers over visualizations, we still make a lot of web maps. And when we do, we take pride in producing high-quality cartographic products. Cartography is a vast subject, encompassing everything from overall page design to the smallest detail in typography. The representation of geographic features with …
Supply Chain Disruption and Geography
Geospatial Trend Report March 2022 – Will discusses recent supply chain disruptions and how geospatial plays a role in increasing the reliability of our global supply chain infrastructure.
A Free Open Source Full Motion Video Workflow
FOSS FMV FTW: A tutorial on how to accurately map video onto a map, using open source software and standards (STAC & STAC API, Mapbox, MapLibre).
Using Mobile LiDAR to Create 3D Models
As a geospatial developer, a lot of what I do revolves around describing the physical world in a digital way. There are many ways to do this. Consider a city: a country-scale map may distill a city into a single point. We might represent the same city as a polygon delineating the city limits. Further …
Geospatial X Climate Change X Finance
Harnessing big data to inform big investments in climate change Climate change is leading the global agenda this month as leaders come together in Glasgow for COP26, the UN Conference for Climate Change. One of the many leading topics is finance – how are countries mobilizing billions of dollars to support climate action, and how …
Accessible Web Maps – Part II
This is a continuation of the accessible web maps blog post that I wrote in May of 2019. In that post I outlined some general accessibility techniques and how to apply them to web maps. I didn’t consult with anyone with a disability for that blog post, it was mostly a digest of my experience …
COG—Huh! What is it good for?
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) are geotiff files, like satellite imagery, that have been processed in a manner that makes it easy to consume for internet processing applications (read cloud). It is the brainchild of some very smart people at very smart organizations (Amazon, Planet, MapBox, ESRI, USGS and the landsat-pds mailing list) and is supported by major processing software such as ESRI, Rasterio, Geoserver, QGIS and GDAL.
Disruption in the Geospatial Age (Part 1 of 2)
How grand I am to throw around terms like ‘the geospatial age’ as if I’m some kind of luminary. It sounds wonderful that we might be in some kind of ‘age’, but really, what on Earth does that mean? Well, what I mean is we as a technology community we are closer to geospatial technology […]