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Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG)
Technology, Information and Internet
Where geospatial data users create the future together.
About us
The Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) collaborates with geospatial data practitioners to create vendor-neutral events, content, and educational opportunities that make geospatial data easier to access and use.
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https://cloudnativegeo.org
External link for Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG)
- Industry
- Technology, Information and Internet
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
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- Nonprofit
Employees at Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG)
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Tyler Erickson
Helping organizations address climate & sustainability issues via Earth observation, cloud-native geospatial, data science & analytics
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Chris Holmes
working for an open world
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Stephanie May
Making maps products that scale
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Qiusheng Wu
Associate Professor @ University of Tennessee | Amazon Scholar
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Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) reposted this
We're excited to share the latest blog from E84's own, Jarrett Keifer, now live on the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) blog! Jarrett's work on the Coalesced Chunk Retrieval Protocol (CCRP) launches a community initiative designed to reconsider and strengthen what it means to be Cloud Native. "CCRP is a protocol that defines a way to make a single API call to fetch multiple data chunks from cloud storage at once, eliminating the network latency that cripples big data analysis." If you're interested in learning more, check out the blog and reach out to us to chat about future possibilities. https://lnkd.in/eZ6i4UEU
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In case you didn’t know, VLIZ - Flanders Marine Institute is part of the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) community. It's an amazing group to be involved with and really looking forward to the upcoming announcements Jed Sundwall 🙂
In case you didn't know (I really should make more noise about this), the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) community is amazing. We've managed to assemble some of the brightest, most creative, and incredibly generous people working to maximize the potential of geospatial data and give them spaces to meet each other and build together. We're vendor neutral and independent of any organization which allows us to connect people from governments, academia, nonprofits, startups, and some of the biggest enterprises in the world. I'm always blown away by the collaboration we can see happening in the CNG Slack. Please join us if you can! Link with info in the comments. You get to join the Slack and get discounts for our events (some announcements coming soon 😀 ).
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In collaboration with Source Cooperative and the magnificent Michelle Roby, I'm running a workshop at FOSS4G 2025 Auckland on Cloud-Native Geospatial methods of accessing small subsets of massive datasets in seconds. You should register for it and come along. You should register for the conference and come along to that too! https://lnkd.in/gyeSRavi
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In case you didn't know (I really should make more noise about this), the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) community is amazing. We've managed to assemble some of the brightest, most creative, and incredibly generous people working to maximize the potential of geospatial data and give them spaces to meet each other and build together. We're vendor neutral and independent of any organization which allows us to connect people from governments, academia, nonprofits, startups, and some of the biggest enterprises in the world. I'm always blown away by the collaboration we can see happening in the CNG Slack. Please join us if you can! Link with info in the comments. You get to join the Slack and get discounts for our events (some announcements coming soon 😀 ).
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🎙️ Source Cooperative's inaugural podcast is on Sep 30 at 11am PT! Join Jed Sundwall for an in-depth conversation with Drew Breunig, author of the blog post, "Why LLM Advancements Have Slowed: The Low-Hanging Fruit Has Been Eaten." They'll talk about the data products that fueled AI’s advancement and why they may have reached their limits. #LLM #AI You can join the conversation live via YouTube.
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NASA have a map with the images Astronauts have taken from space. I remember seeing space documentaries where astronauts with long lenses would snap photos while doing interviews. Great to see this imagery is openly available. Lots of images at night, with snow, etc... and other settings that normally wouldn't be used in day-to-day basemaps. https://lnkd.in/dF-JwPCy
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As compute gets cheaper and code gets smarter, a €3,000 Framework Laptop 13 running DuckDB ingested 20 GB of CSVs at ~2 GB/s, ran TPC-H SF3,000 (~3 TB of sales/orders/line items) on battery in <1 hour and SF10,000 (~10 TB) in ~4 hours—performance that once required €1,000,000+ warehouse cluster. Thanks to modern laptop silicon plus DuckDB’s columnar engine, vectorized execution, parallelism, and smart disk spilling, showing how 99% of enterprise analytics now fit on a single portable machine.
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I'm really excited about Pete’s new stac-map demo! By combining DuckDB, GeoArrow, and Rust, it demonstrates how we can query and explore STAC data directly from flat files without setting up servers or managing infrastructure. That means we’re getting closer to feature parity with STAC database-heavy alternatives. This example even runs straight off a STAC-GeoParquet file of NAIP imagery: https://lnkd.in/e4yNQsma. It’s another step toward lowering barriers and broadening adoption of STAC, especially for use cases where traditional tools in the ecosystem weren’t the best fit.
For better or for worse, I wrote some React code. stac-map is a (prototype) map-first explorer for STAC that includes stac-geoparquet support and natural language collection search. - Try it here: https://lnkd.in/ghqn8sgu - Blog post: https://lnkd.in/gwzqyFGN stac-map is built on a bunch of new stuff, including: - DuckDB, especially its excellent spatial extension (h/t Max Gabrielsson and others) and WASM package - geoarrow and its deck.gl layers from (who else) Kyle Barron - rustac, a Rust+Python package for STACspec - Semantic STAC search, a project we're working on at Development Seed stac-map is designed to compliment and support the excellent stac-browser from Radiant Earth, Matthias Mohr, and others — hopefully we can work on some component sharing or other ways to feed back into the larger STAC ecosystem! Try it out, let me know what you think, and open issues and PRs on https://lnkd.in/gQ6sj9vx! A few more more shout-outs: - Saadiq Mohiuddin, P.Eng. for connecting in-browser DuckDB queries with deck.gl-geoarrow - Indraneel P. for teaching me how to React Better™ and helping build stac-map - Zac Deziel for his Labs leadership at Development Seed 🫡 - And of course Kiri Carini for making sure things actually get finished #priceless
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SatCamp is just a week away! We've got some of the best panels and speakers ever! We're going to highlight the speakers and Panels this week as we lead into the (un)conference. This one is going to be ❤️🔥. Can Satellites Outpace Wildfires? Moderated by Tammy Glazer with panelists: Brian Collins – Executive Director, Earth Fire Alliance Amanda Marchetti – GTM & Business Development for MSIR Data, Muon Space Matt Hubbard – Principal Product Manager, Watch Duty Andre Coleman – Chief Scientist, PNNL (RADR-Fire) Kasra Manavi – Director of Research, Simtable
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