2025 Zarr Summit Recap The first Zarr Summit in Rome brought together developers and adopters from around the world, resulting in significant technical prototypes, a new conventions framework, lasting cross-community connections, and overwhelming enthusiasm for future community gatherings.
STAC+Zarr Community Sprint 2025 Recap The first European STAC sprint brought together developers at ESA ESRIN to establish practical patterns and best practices for integrating STAC with Zarr for cloud-native multidimensional geospatial data.
CNG Editorial Board Spotlight – Q&A: Stephanie May Editorial Board Spotlight series features a different board member sharing their perspectives on geospatial trends and tools, what’s capturing their attention through reading or their current work, and the challenges they believe our community should focus on.
Redefining cloud native with the Coalesced Chunk Retrieval Protocol What happens if we question current assumptions around CNG and imagine what it could be if we were to redefine it with new technologies? The Coalesced Chunk Retrieval Protocol (CCRP) is one idea born of this thinking, aiming to help make CNG more efficient and easier for both data consumers and producers.
A New Process to Publish on the CNG Blog An overview of an updated CNG blog submission process, including what we’re looking for and how to propose, write, and publish your post.
CNG Editorial Board Spotlight – Q&A: Qiusheng Wu Editorial Board Spotlight series features a different board member sharing their perspectives on geospatial trends and tools, what’s capturing their attention through reading or their current work, and the challenges they believe our community should focus on.
Introducing CNG Badges (Beta) We have partnered with thriveGEO to accelerate training and capacity building for cloud-native spatial skills.
Geoparquet 2.0: Going Native GeoParquet 2.0 introduces native GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY support in Parquet and Iceberg, marking a major milestone in geospatial data integration and interoperability.
Coding QGIS Plug-ins with AI coding tools Want to build your own QGIS plugins and any other geospatial tools? Read this account of using AI tools to code a plugin for QGIS.
Using DuckDB’s Hilbert Function with GeoParquet DuckDB’s functionality has continued to expand, and as of version 1.1 it reads and writes GeoParquet natively, as long as you have the spatial extension installed.