Useful material to learn

• https://guide.cloudnativegeo.org/ is great source of information
• Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG): https://cloudnativegeo.org/
• https://developmentseed.org/blog/2025-02-17-cloud-data-zine/
• Nice project: https://blog.heuel.org/2025/02/swiss-roof-explorer/
• https://cholmes.medium.com/an-overview-of-cloud-native-vector-c223845638e0
• Also nice: pizza, also coffee? https://blog.heuel.org/2025/02/pizza-map-oneliner/

Tools we like

• DuckDB (with the https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/core_extensions/spatial/overview), read this https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2023/09/duckdb-the-indispensable-geospatial-tool-you-didnt-know-you-were-missing/
• GDAL applications will support most cloud-optimised formats: https://gdal.org/en/stable/programs/index.html#
• QGIS with GeoParquet support: for Windows you’re good (!), for macOS you’re not (let’s not emphasise this… okay?) ⇒ https://github.com/cholmes/qgis_plugin_gpq_downloader/wiki/Installing-GeoParquet-Support-in-QGIS
• QGIS plugin to download the bbox shown from Overture and others: https://github.com/cholmes/qgis_plugin_gpq_downloader/
• A collection of tools for GeoParquet, using PyArrow and DuckDB: https://github.com/cholmes/geoparquet-io
• To convert, inspect, and validate GeoParquet files https://github.com/planetlabs/gpq

Datasets

• Overture (all footprints in the world in geoparquet): https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/
• https://source.coop/ has several datasets