End-to-End Guide: Ingesting Overture Maps Data into Snowflake and Serving It as a GeoService with Snowflake-Koop Provider

In this article, I will walk you through the process of ingesting geospatial data from the Overture Maps Foundation into Snowflake, using a step-by-step approach. Additionally, we will leverage the Snowflake-Koop provider to access and serve the ingested data as a GeoService. What is Koop.js ? Geospatial data server for the web; built using Node JS w/ javascript (a.k.a RESTful web server) Transform/serves data from from remote APIs with HTTP requests Support geospatial operations Built-in support for Geoservice Spec (for ArcGIS clients) “Plugins” allow quick and customuze deployments Underlying tech for custom data feeds in ArcGIS Enterprise....

November 7, 2024 · 5 min

Access a Table from Azure Databricks using Javascript

This post shows how to connect to Azure Databricks using Databricks SQL driver for Node JS and fetch the data Pre-requiste Install Node.js version 14 or higher version Install @databricks/sql package from npm Create an workspace in Azure databricks and injest a data and save as table in Delta lake. Create personal access token as outlined here Understanding Databricks Authentcation types: using Personal Access Token (PAT) using User to Machine (OAuth User to machine)...

November 6, 2024 · 2 min

Good Reads

I’ll share some of good technical articles and blogs which I came across. Awesome Vector-tiles . List of parsers and generators, clients and geospatial tools. What are Vector-tiles? . Good summary of vector-tiles and why should we care Awesome MapBox Resources - List of external resources if you are using Mapbox Tiling - Good reading on tiling. Must for any geospatial Engineer Src vs Flat Layout - Gives good undertsnading of python packaging and layout structure....

August 12, 2024 · 2 min