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Geospatial Data Analytics on AWS

By : Scott Bateman, Janahan Gnanachandran, Jeff DeMuth
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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

Setting up the database

Using your AWS account, you can quickly set up a database for storing geospatial data in the cloud. This section will walk you through the steps to create a serverless database using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). The architecture described here is not recommended for a production geospatial system but provides a simple and cost-effective way to explore geospatial data on AWS. Any business-critical systems should consider using the Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) deployment option for PostgreSQL to provide failover capabilities in the event of any infrastructure disruptions.

Many workloads have specific requirements or constraints that dictate the version of PostgreSQL or PostGIS. If your situation does not prescribe a specific operating system or version, it is often advantageous to use the AWS default recommendations.

Log in to your AWS account and navigate to the RDS service. You can choose whichever region is preferred based on...