Cloud Optimized Shapefiles
11-04, 14:00–14:30 (America/New_York), Lake Audubon

They said we couldn't do it, they said we shouldn't do it, but Cloud Optimized Shapefiles are real. What do you need to know about this exciting and dynamic new* geospatial format.

*Actually very old.


Imagine a world where you could take a bounding box, and with a few quick look ups do a web request to download just the rows of a shapefile that are within that bounding box and then also do a separate request for the properties since that is stored in a separate file.

You no longer have to imagine because that world, is the world you live in. Join us for an exciting talk well suited for any person interested in the minutia of how obscure geospatial files formates and obsolete databate files are laid out internally. Furthermore scintillating discussions of geo indexing strategies will also take place.

This is THE talk to attend if you are passionate about sidecar files.

Cat pictures will be provided.