11-04, 10:30–11:00 (America/New_York), Lake Audubon
The geospatial community has started to adopt new formats and protocols for more efficient and flexible access to data. QGIS is following suit - let's explore the current state of support for STAC, COG, COPC, Zarr and GeoParquet within QGIS.
Cloud-native geospatial has gained a lot of traction, and while many people see their benefits mainly in the context of processing large amounts of data in the cloud, the formats and protocols can be successfully used also in the more traditional desktop GIS tools like QGIS.
At Lutra Consulting, we have been interested in this topic and we have implemented support for COPCs in QGIS 3.26 (back in 2022) and more recently, support for STAC in QGIS 3.42 (released early 2025).
The talk is not going to dive into technical details of various formats, but rather it will try to show what is currently possible to achieve with STAC catalogs for data discovery, and with raster, vector and point cloud layers when being streamed. We will look into the limitations of the current support and scope for future improvements.
With a background in computer science and a long-standing interest in maps, Martin has contributed to the QGIS project since 2005. As CTO at Lutra Consulting, he remains dedicated to building the open-source geospatial ecosystem.