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Geospatial Data Analytics on AWS

By : Scott Bateman, Janahan Gnanachandran, Jeff DeMuth
Book Image

Geospatial Data Analytics on AWS

By: Scott Bateman, Janahan Gnanachandran, Jeff DeMuth

Overview of this book

Managing geospatial data and building location-based applications in the cloud can be a daunting task. This comprehensive guide helps you overcome this challenge by presenting the concept of working with geospatial data in the cloud in an easy-to-understand way, along with teaching you how to design and build data lake architecture in AWS for geospatial data. You’ll begin by exploring the use of AWS databases like Redshift and Aurora PostgreSQL for storing and analyzing geospatial data. Next, you’ll leverage services such as DynamoDB and Athena, which offer powerful built-in geospatial functions for indexing and querying geospatial data. The book is filled with practical examples to illustrate the benefits of managing geospatial data in the cloud. As you advance, you’ll discover how to analyze and visualize data using Python and R, and utilize QuickSight to share derived insights. The concluding chapters explore the integration of commonly used platforms like Open Data on AWS, OpenStreetMap, and ArcGIS with AWS to enable you to optimize efficiency and provide a supportive community for continuous learning. By the end of this book, you’ll have the necessary tools and expertise to build and manage your own geospatial data lake on AWS, along with the knowledge needed to tackle geospatial data management challenges and make the most of AWS services.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to the Geospatial Data Ecosystem
4
Part 2: Geospatial Data Lakes using Modern Data Architecture
10
Part 3: Analyzing and Visualizing Geospatial Data in AWS
16
Part 4: Accessing Open Source and Commercial Platforms and Services

Putting it all together

There are too many controls and options to cover all of them in detail here, but the following published dashboard shows how you can display the default map with points symbolized by league. Even with a simple dataset that has only a unique key (team name) and two attributes (league and division), QuickSight can help to provide a rich, insightful visualization far more useful than the simple CSV list we started with.

Figure 12.24: Example QuickSight dashboard with map

Figure 12.24: Example QuickSight dashboard with map

Once you have created dashboards to share with others, QuickSight provides a secure capability for web and mobile app connections. This will allow you and your organization to have access to your geospatial data whether at home, at work, or on the go. Next, we’ll cover a few points on team collaboration in QuickSight, then wrap up the chapter with a summary.