The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development. ~ https://www.osgeo.org/about/ There are a number of projects that have joined OSGeo Community or have been through the …
Continue reading SQL Spatial – OSGeo Project, QGIS, and GDAL
Code for this post can be found in the SQL Spatial project in GitHub. "The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international not for profit organization committed to making quality open standards for the global geospatial community. These standards are made through a consensus process and are freely available for anyone to use to improve …
In this blog series we will dig into spatial data available in SQL Server. This second post will be creating spatial data manually. The three base objects will be reviewed and see different examples of queries. Let’s start by opening up SSMS and connecting to a SQL Server instance that is 2008 or higher. Spatial …
Continue reading SQL Spatial – Creating spatial data from scratch
In this blog series we will dig into spatial data available in SQL Server. This first post will be on the data types in SQL Server that allow storing spatial data. Spatial data has many different names. Geographic information, geospatial data, GIS, map data, or location each one generally refers to the same thing. SQL …
To get started with Microsoft Azure Databricks, log into your Azure portal. If you do not have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin. Another great way to get started with Databricks is a free notebook environment with a micro-cluster called Community Edition. Nathan Marz coined the term Lambda Architecture (LA) while working …
To get started with Microsoft Azure Databricks, log into your Azure portal. If you do not have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin. Azure Databricks has two REST APIs for versions 2.0 and 1.2. These APIs allow general administration and management for different areas of your Databricks environment. In order to simplify …
Notebooks are web pages that have an engine behind them to run code. Azure Databricks Notebooks are similar to IPython and Jupyter Notebooks. The engine is based on REPL or read-eval-print loop that parses our code, evaluates it for the interpreter, and prints any results. Notebooks are the main interface for building code within Azure …
To get started with Microsoft Azure Databricks, log into your Azure portal. If you do not have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin. To view previous posts please visit the following: What is Azure Databricks? Getting started with Azure Databricks Creating Azure Databricks Clusters Azure Databricks – Workloads Libraries Azure Databricks libraries allow …
Spark Introduction Spark is an open-source lightning-fast unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. The foundation of Spark is designed on resilient distributed dataset (RDD) which is a read-only dataset distributed over a cluster of machines. RDDs are fault tolerant meaning Spark will not crash if one or more failures occurs during processing. Spark requires …
To get started with Microsoft Azure Databricks, log into your Azure portal. If you do not have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin. To view previous posts please visit the following: What is Azure Databricks Getting started with Azure Databricks Creating Azure Databricks Clusters Azure Databricks Workloads Azure Databricks Jobs Jobs allow us …
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